Alison Hernandez

Now in her eleventh year as Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Alison Hernandez is one of the UK’s longest standing Commissioners. She is one of the national joint leads of the APCC Criminal Justice portfolio. Overseeing the country’s largest geographic policing area, Alison has taken an innovative approach, with some groundbreaking schemes such as the development and implementation of ‘CJ & You’ an essential guide for victims seeking justice, one of the first to trial virtual courts, and the award-winning ‘Prisoners Building Homes’ contributing to reducing reoffending rates to below 5%. Alison also headed the local, strategic Criminal Justice response to the riots of 2024, the first area to scrutinise whether two-tier policing existed, pre-empting the government’s approach. As Chair of both Devon and Cornwall’s Local Criminal Justice Board and the South West Reducing Reoffending Partnership, Alison is relentless in her work to bring partners