Standing for: Independent
Background: Retired Sutton-In-Ashfield GP living in Ravenshead, married with three children.
Experience: Former police surgeon, former mayor of Gedling and a trustee of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), which runs programmes in schools to ensure children do not turn to drugs.
BY his own admission, Dr Raj Chandran is now retired and could comfortably live the rest of his life with his feet up on a healthy pension.
So why is he trying to put himself in what will surely become one of the most demanding jobs in Notts?
"I want to leave a legacy and I want to leave Notts safer," he said.
"I don't want my experience to go to waste."
Dr Chandran's manifesto dedicates a whole section to the millstone around the neck of Notts Police – cash.
The force has been told it must slash £42.3 million from its spending by 2015, meaning one thing the new commissioner must be good at is counting pennies.
He said: "Finance is the most important issue. All the candidates are going to say 'put more police on the streets and make Notts safer' but how are they are going to pay for it?
"I have a credible plan."
Dr Chandran, who resigned from the Conservative party to stand as independent due to a disillusion with Government cuts, says for at least three months – and up to six if necessary – he will pay for external experts to find further efficiency savings in the force, paid for out of his commissioner annual salary, which will be around £75,000.
He is also looking to reinstate the force's mounted section and make them self-funding. He said: "I'm sure people would be interested in sponsoring units. For example, you have names for horses in races – a firm could put their name on a horse."
He also wants to embark on a recruitment drive, saying he would take on 500 more volunteer special constables, train 200 existing police community support officers to become regular officers and procuring through councils 400 community protection officers – which he said councils should pick up the tab for.
His pledges also speak of the need to make Notts safer. But, as Notts Police will say, crime in the county is now at its lowest level for more than 30 years – and falling. So what needs fixing?
"I've been campaigning from Newark to Ashfield, Worksop to Clipstone. I'm yet to hear anyone say what a wonderful police force we have and that crime is coming down. Every day I hear complaints.
"Anyone who says satisfaction with the force is fine, I'd challenge them to come with me and canvass in a town centre and ask people themselves and hear what they say."
