A "CODE" which could help prevent people becoming victims of crime has won backing from all the candidates to become the first Notts Police and Crime Commissioner.
"Caroline's Code" is being developed following the murder of Caroline Coyne last July.
On Thursday, Carl Powell, 24, of Carlton, was given a life sentence at Nottingham Crown Court after a jury found him guilty of the murder.
Powell stalked and then killed the mother-of-two in Thorneywood as she walked home from a party.
Before the attack, Caroline, 28, of Top Valley, tried to flag down cars and was caught on CCTV deliberately stepping in front of a bus.
After Thursday's verdict, Jason Stansfield, who helped bring Caroline up while in a relationship with her mother Mandy Coyne, wants public, transport companies and taxi firms to sign up to the code, which obliges passers-by including bus drivers and the public to try to help people at risk.
All the candidates standing in the November 15 election to become the commissioner backed the idea yesterday.
Once elected the commissioner will take over the role of Notts Police Authority in scrutinising Notts Police and setting its budgets.
Conservative candidate Tony Roberts said: "That 'neighbourliness' does seem to have gone now. You have to think about the potential consequences of ignoring that person. This could make us all more aware and a bit more sensitive and something good could come out of it in the end."
Five months after the attack on Caroline, a woman in her early 20s was beaten unconscious and raped on The Forest Recreation Ground. Moments earlier, she boarded a bus but was told to get off by the driver because she was 20p short of the fare.
Last month 19-year-old Joseph Moran, of Walker Street, Sneinton, was locked up for a minimum of six-and-a-half years for the attack.
Paddy Tipping, the Labour candidate, said: "I'm very supportive of the idea of the code. I'm concerned that not just on this occasion but with what happened at the Forest Recreation Ground there were serious consequences that could have been avoided."
Malcolm Spencer, a retired police officer and independent candidate, backed the code but said it would need more development.
Care needed to be taken to ensure the public were not encouraged to put themselves at risk by helping someone late at night, he added.
Dr Raj Chandran, also standing as an independent, backed the code and said: "People should not so easily look away."
Mr Stansfield, of Arnot Hill Road, Arnold, helped bring Caroline up for around eight years and remained close to her afterwards.
Nottingham City Council, which licences taxis in the city, is willing to talk to Mr Stansfield about the idea and Nottingham City Transport says it will support the code.
Mr Stansfield, 42, said: "If it does take off it could be rolled out nationally and become a pilot project. I'm still determined that there will be an attitude change."
