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Mike Pannett: “I believe that politics and policing should be kept separate”

8th December 2015

Mike Pannett - Independent PCC Candidate for North Yorkshire

OPINION: Former police officer and award winning author, Mike Pannett, announces his candidature for the North Yorkshire PCC elections

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Mike Pannett is an Independent PCC Candidate for North Yorkshire. Mike Pannett was born in York, and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1988. He became one of the youngest officers to be given his own patch, and served on the Divisional Crime Squad, Murder Squad and TSG (Riot Police).He transferred to North Yorkshire police in 1997 as he missed the countryside – and fly fishing! He became a rural beat officer and eventually, a wildlife officer. In 2005 he starred in the BBC’s Country Cops and was inspired to write about his adventures in the North Yorks force.Mike served nearly twenty years in the police, during which he became one of the highest commended officers. He lives with his wife Ann, and their three children in a small village in the shadow of the North Yorkshire moors