Police: Vetting, Misconduct and Misogyny Debate

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Department: Home Office

Police: Vetting, Misconduct and Misogyny

Lord Browne of Ladyton Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd November 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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Not as far as I am aware, but I defer to the noble Lord’s specialist knowledge on this subject and I will take the question back to the Home Office.

Lord Browne of Ladyton Portrait Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab)
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My Lords, in his first Prime Minister’s Questions last week, Rishi Sunak chose to close the session by bragging and baiting the leader of the Opposition—to braying from the Tory Benches—saying that there are 15,000 new police officers on our streets. When he did so, how much did he know about the scale and nature of this—that hundreds, perhaps thousands of those people may have passed through flawed vetting processes?

Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con)
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I have no idea what the Prime Minister knew or did not know.