Clive Grunshaw

Clive Grunshaw (born October 1961) is a Labour Party politician who served as Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner covering the police force area of Lancashire Constabulary from 2012 to 2021. He is the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 November 2012 and re-elected in 2016.

Grunshaw, a former milkman, said it was a "new era for policing"; however, he admitted turnout was "disappointing". He was formerly Lancashire County Council member for Fleetwood East and Pharos Ward Councillor for Wyre Council, where he was Leader of a minority Labour Group from May 2007 until resigning from that position on 20 November 2012 on assuming the post of Police and Crime Commissioner. Grunshaw also stood unsuccessfully as the Labour Party candidate for Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency at the 2010 general election.

November 2015 marked three years since the first Police and Crime Commissioner elections. During the year Grunshaw was a prominent campaigner in opposing proposed changes to the way police forces are funded which would have seen Lancashire Constabulary lose £24.5 million. Minister of State for Policing Mike Penning MP was forced to admit to MPs that "a statistical error was made in the data used" and paused the process pending a further review.