Police: Funding Debate

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Department: Home Office

Police: Funding

Baroness Trumpington Excerpts
Wednesday 14th September 2011

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Browning Portrait Baroness Browning
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My Lords, these individual matters in individual forces are for individual decisions taken by the individual chief officers for good reasons when they are looking at priorities. However, buildings, numbers and statistics mean nothing compared to the way in which the leadership in police forces ensure that the police are deployed. We are very determined that police officers will police on the front line, in the streets, and not in offices.

Baroness Trumpington Portrait Baroness Trumpington
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Was it the result of police cuts that prevented the police from preventing the Muslim group burning the American flag in Grosvenor Square on Sunday?

Baroness Browning Portrait Baroness Browning
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I sense from my noble friend’s question how she felt about seeing that scene on television. I have absolutely no reason to believe that it was anything to do with lack of policing, but I am very happy to write to my noble friend with more details about the background to that incident.