Perhaps current Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg was spurred into resigning from the Conservative Party because the new Conservative candidate for the job, Alison Hernandez, was the election agent for the Torbay MP Kevin Foster, one of the MPs under investigation by police and the Electoral Commission for alleged election fraud following visits by The Conservative battle bus to the south-west which were not declared locally.
Source: Channel 4 News tonight:
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/busted-24-tories-how-broke-7467603
If elected, she could be in the very strange position of being able to fire the top officer investigating her and the MP she was working for!
“… Election agents are responsible for sanctioning all expenditure on the candidate’s campaign, for maintaining the accuracy of and submitting to the returning officer the candidate’s expenses and other documents, as well as deciding whether to contest the result of a count. …”
East Devon Watch 
As far as I know, it is the election agent who is solely responsible for ensuring that election expenses are properly declared and legal.
If this is the case, then it is Alison Hernandez herself who is under investigation for illegal expenses, rather than Torbay Tory MP Kevin Foster – though of course, if there was illegal expenditure, the election will have to be rerun and Kevin Foster might lose his seat.
It seems to me that Alison Hernandez’s position as candidate for PCC is pretty untenable – in my view she should withdraw from the election immediately.
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