Nigel Farage has unveiled the Metropolitan Police detective who caught serial killer Levi Bellfield as Reform UK's new police and crime tsar.

Colin Sutton, 64, will now oversee Reform UK's commitment to halve crime in five years by hiring 30,000 extra police and investigating every reported offence.

Sutton, who grew up in North London and now lives in Suffolk, will also stand as a Reform UK candidate at the next General Election.

He believes the UK should reopen 300 mothballed police stations, hand tasers to all frontline officers and stop policing online spats.

After being unveiled at Reform HQ, Sutton said: "Two-tier policing, a two-tier criminal justice system, is one thing being bandied about a lot.

"I don't think it's an unfair thing to say. Perceptions are real. You only have to look through the news, through social media, at the disparity between sentences for different crimes or for people from different communities, or from different ideologies.

"And I start asking myself: 'How can it be? How did we end up in the situation where these disparities are there?' But they are real."

Sutton warned that a key reason for the emergence of so-called two-tier justice come from a collapse in policing numbers, with per capita numbers falling drastically since the 1980s.

"We made a difference when I was in the police service, there's no doubt about it," Sutton concluded.

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"I thought, well, maybe I've got an opportunity now to make a difference with another team and that team, I think, is Reform."

Sutton, who was a Tory member before joining Scotland Yard, also pointed out that many officers would never forgive the Conservative Party for the cuts imposed by then-Home Secretary Theresa May.

During his press conference in Westminster, Farage also confirmed his plans will cost an additional £17.4billion.

However, the Reform UK leader stressed that it is possible to plug the gap in public finances.

He said: “How are you going to pay for it? We’re going to stop monstrosities like HS2, we’re going to stop tens of billions a year being wasted on climate change.

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An image of Levi Bellfield

“And as you know we have ongoing conversations with the Bank of England who appear to be quite close to locking in a loss of almost £100billion... I almost forgot, didn’t I? Sizewell, the cost of that’s doubled from £20billion to £40billion.

“No proper debate about the billions we waste, huge arguments over a billion here and a billion there.”

Unveiling Sutton to front up Reform's crime-stopping efforts, Farage added: “Colin Sutton is about to embark on his second big career and I’m very pleased to say he has announced that he intends not just to stand for us at the next General Election, but to head up a law and order and policing task force so that we can go into the next general election ready on day one to start doing the right things, to reverse lawlessness and to take back control of our streets.

“We really are as a party absolutely delighted to welcome Colin Sutton on board.”

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Farage also touched on concerns about immigration, pointing to the "alarming parallel" between the rise in net migration and rise in rapes in Britain.

Meanwhile, Sutton went further on his crusade against so-called "wokeness" in the police, blasting forces for prioritising diversity, equity and inclusion schemes.

He said: “Do you actually care who comes through the door? You want two trained, competent police officers to sort your emergency there and then.

"And you’re not going to ask them what their heritage is or how they voted.”

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Sutton, who also caught the "Night Stalker" rapist Delroy Grant, separately urged officers to focus on serious crimes rather than policing offensive tweets.

He said: “We need to do the things that matter to real people. I’ve known thousands of police officers over my life, past and present, and I can’t believe that any one of them would tell me that he or she joined up, signed on the dotted line, to serve King and country, because they wanted to police social media.

“I used to go home as a young police officer to my family and say ‘brilliant job last night, mean streets of Tottenham, yes we arrested a burglar’.

"That’s what you join for. Do these, these days, go home and say ‘found a fantastic offensive tweet today’?"