Baroness Fullbrook
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(13 years, 11 months ago)
Commons Chamber5. What recent steps she has taken to make police forces more accountable to local residents.
8. What recent steps she has taken to make police forces more accountable to local people.
The introduction of elected police and crime commissioners to hold their chief constable and force to account through a strong public mandate will restore the connection between the police and the people, ensuring that the police are held to account democratically, not bureaucratically by Whitehall.
Decisions on whether to continue with the basic command unit structure within forces are a matter for chief constables to decide, and not one on which the Government have taken a view. I appreciate my hon. Friend’s concerns about resources and am happy to discuss them with him and to find out from the chief constable when I next see her, which will be this week, what she plans to do to allay them.
Does my right hon. Friend agree that a partnership between the police force and the local community is the best way to tackle crime?