ANOTHER high-profile Tory MP visited Selby to boost local challenger Mark Menzies' campaign.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis came to town to highlight his party's "tough message on crime".
Parliamentary hopeful Mr Menzies also took the opportunity to call for longer opening hours at Selby police station.
Mr Menzies said: "Crime is a huge issue and we have got a massive task to do, but the next Conservative government is going to deliver. The fact that the police station in Selby performs so well is down to the Chief Inspector and the officers who run it, but more officers are needed.
"We would use those new officers to ensure that this station is fully operational, full-time.
"It is ridiculous that it if an officer arrests someone in the south of Selby District out of hours, they have to drive them all the way to Fulford to take that person into custody, taking another officer off the streets."
Selby police station is fully operational between 8am and midnight every day. He pledged that a Conservative government would recruit 5,000 new officers every year for the next eight years.
Updated: 10:58 Tuesday, April 26, 2005
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