Dame Vera Baird will leave the post on 30 September at the end of her contract.

Victims' Commissioner quits with letter saying 'system is in chaos'

Former Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Dame Vera Baird has backed a new law, which would give victims of crime more rights.

Dame Vera Baird backs new law giving crime victims more rights

Northumbria Police & Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, calls on the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd MP, to 'reverse police cuts'.

CSE is described by police as a form of sexual abuse that involves the manipulation or coercion of young people into sexual activity.

PCC Vera Baird DBE QC, has welcomed yesterday’s budget announcement that £20 million will be made available to address domestic violence.

There were 8,656 times when Female Genital Mutilation was assessed in one year - the equivalent of one every 61 minutes.

The Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner has welcomed a Government report that says soliciting sex workers should be decriminalised

Northumbria’s PCC Vera Baird has joined forces with famous figures to put an end to rape and sexual violence in Burma. 

A report says that police had "too low a level of urgency" in recapturing a convicted killer who escaped from a Newcastle hospital