Police: Officer Numbers Debate

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Department: Home Office

Police: Officer Numbers

Lord Berkeley Excerpts
Tuesday 1st February 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Neville-Jones Portrait Baroness Neville-Jones
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I am afraid I am at a loss to know to what Question the noble Lord is referring, but I will look into it.

Lord Berkeley Portrait Lord Berkeley
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My Lords, I wrote down very carefully the answer that the Minister gave to a previous question. She said that there is no link between the number of officers and the level of crime. Does it therefore follow that if we had no police officers that would not affect the level of crime?