Richard Foord
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Shabana Mahmood
Numbers matter, of course, but what matters more is what those officers are doing, and that is exactly what these reforms are about.
Richard Foord (Honiton and Sidmouth) (LD)
One resident from Uplyme on the border of Dorset and Devon wrote to me about a burglary that she had experienced. She reported it to Dorset police, who told her that it was for the police in Devon to pick up and that her case would be passed on to Devon, but days later she had heard nothing more. Can the Home Secretary assure us that the mergers she has described today will mean that cases, and indeed residents, will no longer be bounced between neighbouring police forces?
Shabana Mahmood
Yes. The point of the new model for policing is to make sure that victims of crime get a good standard of service for whatever type of crime they have been victims of, no matter where they are in the country.