Sky News revealed on Friday that Steve Turner, police and crime commissioner for Cleveland, triggered two different police investigations into political opponents in recent weeks.
Mr Turner's complaint about the Labour election leaflet led to an inquiry which lasted almost a week.
They added the police officers they were talking to"seemed a bit embarrassed to be dealing with it and said they're normally fraud officers but were working the election".
After the third and final home visit to Labour activists over the leaflet complaint, Cleveland Police telephoned Mr Turner to update him about their probe into his complaint - a level of engagement which Labour officials say is rare when they raise similar issues elsewhere.In a statement, Cleveland Police said the force"received a complaint from local election candidates in Redcar and Cleveland regarding information relating to them, in a leaflet distributed to homes in Redcar".
After receiving the call about the election leaflet investigation, Mr Turner wrote on social media that the police had"confirmed" Labour leaflets contained"lies". Referring to the complaint connected to the election leaflet, Mr Turner said in a statement:"Until your note today I had no idea any of those individuals had been visited by the police and my complaint about the leaflet was before I knew it was a Labour Party product.
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