CANDIDATES hoping to take the region’s new top police job will speak and debate in Oxford tonight. Elections for the £85,000-a-year Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner will take place on Thursday, November 15.

The commissioner represents the public and the job includes setting the force budget and priorities.

Anyone can attend the public meeting at Oxford Town Hall in St Aldate’s from 7pm. Each of the six candidates will make a short speech before taking questions from the floor.