Police and crime commissioner candidate, David Moreland. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
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A police chief candidate who made comments about migrants and women that were branded racist and sexist has insisted he will not stand aside.
He insisted his comments, made in response to what action he would like to see in the county to help protect women after the murder of Sarah Everard, were not racist or sexist and the people accusing him did not “understand the realities”.
Mr Moreland, who has served in both the Army and Metropolitan Police, reiterated that he had a Muslim sister-in-law and grew up and served with West Indian people.
David Moreland Norfolk PCC candidate to fight on
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Woman walking alone in Norwich
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The disappearance and discovery of 33-year-old Sarah Everard has shocked the nation and although the full circumstances are not yet known it has led to a wider debate about women s safety. But, as Sarah Burgess found out, it isn t just a London problem, women here in Norfolk and Waveney regularly feel their safety threatened too.
Natasha Harpley, a 41-year-old who has lived in the county for most of her life, is as qualified as any to talk about how women in the area feel on the subject of personal safety.