Joseph Boam was filmed in May this year allegedly handing out ice creams from a van parked closing to a polling station on the day of the county council elections.
Boam was elected to represent the Whitwick ward of Leicestershire County Council on 1 May.
BBC News quotes the statement from Leicestershire Police:
"The force received a report from a third party of an ice cream van outside a polling station in May 2025.
"This is being assessed as to whether this constitutes treating under electoral malpractice."
The report was made on Friday, the force added.
The BBC also says it understands Boam, whose family has an ice cream business, is yet to be contacted by the police and denies any wrongdoing.
Boam was appointed deputy leader of the council after Reform assumed minority control in May. He was sacked from that role and his cabinet post in charge adult social care, reportedly because the group's leader had decided he was not up to the jobs.
Talking to Leicester Gazette, the Liberal Democrat group leader on the council, Michael Mullaney, said:
"Electoral law is pretty clear on this matter and has been for many years. Obviously it will have to be looked into but if he is found to have broken electoral law in this way the appropriate action will have to be taken."
That Leicester Gazette story also provides us with our Name of the Day: congratulations to the website's reporter Rhys Everquill. Could there be a better name for a journalist?
And it reminds us that Leicestershire has a ward that sounds like a rock band: Sileby and the Wolds. Let's make it our Ward of the Week.
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