Kent’s Police and Crime Commissioner will be given some “words of advice” after his car rolled out of police headquarters and onto an A-road without its handbrake on.

Matthew Scott’s Renault rolled out of Maidstone’s Police headquarters, in Sutton Road, on Tuesday.

Witnesses described seeing the car move in reverse with no driver and swerve out onto the road before coming to a stop on a nearby grass verge.

A spokesman for Kent Police said: “In an update a spokesman for Kent Police has said: "Officers have reviewed an incident involving a car which rolled backwards after being left unattended at Kent Police Headquarters on October 11 and have determined that the matter will be dealt with by providing the driver with words of advice."