Teron Haynes
Teron Haynes is running for election to the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners to represent District 5 in Michigan. He is a write-in candidate in the general election on November 4, 2025.
Haynes completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Teron Haynes was born in Centreville, Illinois. He served in the U.S. Army from 2013 to 2018. He earned a bachelor's degree from Methodist University in 2021. His career experience includes working as an investigator.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Detroit, Michigan (2025)
General election
General election for Detroit Board of Police Commissioners District 5
The following candidates are running in the general election for Detroit Board of Police Commissioners District 5 on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
 | Chandra Darrisaw (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | |
| Ronald Elliott (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | ||
| Tenay Hankins (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | ||
 | Teron Haynes (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)  | |
 | E'yandra Otis (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | |
| Paul Smith (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | ||
| Beverly Watts (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | ||
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Nonpartisan primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Chandra Darrisaw (Nonpartisan)
- Willie Burton (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia is gathering information about candidate endorsements. To send us an endorsement, click here.
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Teron Haynes completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Haynes' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
Teron Haynes has a background in investigations and finds deep passion in anything involving justice. He also spent 5 years in the United States Army, earning multiple service medals and awards including an Army Achievement Medal for orchestrating a blood drive while serving.
Teron Haynes is a public servant with a deep passion for creating reasonable, responsible, and respectable solutions. Haynes is looking to bring his investigative expertise, understanding of justice , and police practices to a board that is looking for structure and wisdom.- Structure and strengthen the Board of Police Commissioners through collaborative efforts with Detroit's city council and other legislative entities.
- Reinstitute the Board of Police Commissioners right to oversee the Detroit Police Department by utilizing the City's Charter and all of its designated rights afforded to board.
- Cooperate with the Detroit Police Department in incorporating new policy that creates a balance between sworn officer's physical and mental health in an effort to make Detroiters feel safer about the officers serving them.
Transparency, policy that creates mandates on body worn camera publicity
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2025 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Detroit Board of Police Commissioners District 5 |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 25, 2025
| |||||||||
