Braintree MP Brooks Newmark has been highlighting the importance of the police and crime commissioner elections.

Mr Newmark and his team spent a morning campaigning in Braintree’s town centre with MEP Vicky Ford and Nick Alston, the conservative candidate for Essex.

Mr Newmark said: “The purpose of the morning's campaigning was to let local people know what a police and crime commissioner can do for them, which is to give local people a direct say into what they want to see the police prioritise for us.”