Julia Mulligan formally takes office as North Yorks PCC

The North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan has set out her priorities for her second term in office.

Following her re-election last week, Julia Mulligan today (May 12th) formally took up her post as Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire and the City of York.

Her main pledges are:

• Improve forensic examination services for children who have been sexually assaulted

• Bring in new support for parents and families affected by child sexual exploitation

• Extend services directly supporting sexually exploited children to all parts of North Yorkshire

• Introduce new services to protect children being targeted online

• Extend mental health street triage services to Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire and improve services already in place in Scarborough and York

• Extend the hours of the mental health force control room triage service to 12 hours a day, seven days a week

• Increase the number of independent domestic abuse advisors (IDVAs) by two to 14 across York and North Yorkshire