HAMPSHIRE’S Police and Crime Commissioner has spoken about her priorities as she passes 100 days in office.

On August 20, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Donna Jones, reached the end of her first 100 days in office.

Throughout her tenure so far, the former Portsmouth City Council leader has met with community leaders and politicians across the county as she looks to shape the way policing is delivered.

Having met with the Prime Minister in the past few weeks and become national leader for victims and serious organised crime, the new PCC said: “At the end of my first 100 days in office, it is incredibly humbling, and I still pinch myself every day that I’ve been elected to represent over 2 million people.”

Ahead of the election, Ms Jones carried out a crime survey which has helped her to outline her main priorities.

She said, more police on the streets, police viability, anti social behaviour, and problems with the 101 reporting service were the main points to come out of her research.

Now in response, 600 more police officers are due to be added to the force by 2023, a forcewide ASB taskforce has been set up and now a police and crime app is being planned to make it easier to report crimes.

Speaking on issues in Southampton, the PCC said: “I think the mixture of crimes associated to drug related harm, knife carrying and crimes of sexual violence are an issue.

“There are also problems with anti social behaviour particularly in housing estates on the western side of Southampton.”

She added: “What we’ve seen over the last couple of years is a growth in serious organised crime.

“One of the problems with serious organised crime is that quite often, what gangs do to each other doesn’t get reported to the police. The hospitals are a key way for us to find out what’s going on.”

Now funding has been secured for new A&E navigators who will operate in hospitals to support victims of these kind of incidents.

As well as this, the PCC is working on a new programme called Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) for which over £400k has been secured.

The programme looks to support expectant mothers who may have had negative experiences in their life that have possibly affected their future decision making.

The PCC said: “It is not a quick win, but absolutely vital for us as a community and society to be helping young people and preventing them from becoming criminals.”