New deputy mayor for police work and crime named

A former probation assistant and senior official is called Deputy Mayor for Police and Crime for South Yorkshire.

Kilvinder vigur was selected by Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, as his preferred candidate for the role.

Ms. Vigurs started her career as a probation assistant in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and most recently worked as a regional probation director in Yorkshire and The Humber.

She said: “I am absolutely determined to spend my first weeks to speak to people. You can read things, but you cannot feel the emotions that people have.”

As a deputy mayor, Ms. Vigt will work with Coppard to monitor and improve police work and criminal judiciary, manage the crimes and the anti -social behavior and commission services to support victims and reduce the insult.

She will take over the police and crime plan, preserve the chair of the local criminal justice board of the Safer Roads partnership and have close surveillance of the department for reduction in violence.

In the past few months, South Yorkshire has made national headlines after she in a hotel in Manvers near Rotherham asylum seekers in the apartment and the deadly custody of the youth boys from teenagers, Harvey, willing.

Ms. Vigurs said: “The first thing I have to do is talk to communities and determine what they think.

“We have to speak to parents whose children are victims of razor crime. We have to go to the communities who experience anti -social behavior every day, which makes their lives a misery.

“Obviously, the headlines of the media are the bad news, but I also think that there are also some good news that you can share.”

In her new role, she also has to deal with the inheritance of events in South Yorkshire in 1984, the Rotherham Child sex abuse scandal and the Hillsborough disaster.

Ms. Vigurs said she promised to continue talking to CSE survivors to “ensure that the teachings were drawn”, and she supported the demands for an examination in Orgreave.

Another area that she can concentrate on is the “basic accounting error”, which led to a 65 million pound oloch in the finances of the police of South Yorkshire. Coppard said that the results of an investigation into the matter that will be published later this year was published.

Coppard, who remains responsible for all functions of the police and the criminal officer, said: [Kilvinder’s] Experience in experience, their priorities, their values ​​and their sheer determination of helping people will help to change South Yorkshire better. “

The appointment of Ms. Vigurs is subject to Thursday, May 15th

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