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HANSARDCoronation: Policing of ProtestsI do not accept that. I have already pointed out the operational independence of the police and I have said that briefings by the Met on the coronation were received not just by…09 May 2023HANSARDCoronation: Policing of ProtestsNo. What we saw on Saturday was the police doing their best, in very difficult and challenging circumstances, to prevent disruption while allowing and facilitating peaceful…09 May 2023HANSARDCoronation: Policing of ProtestsI am not sure that that question merits an answer. The legislation is clearly politics agnostic, and it is for the police to apply it without fear or favour.09 May 2023HANSARDCoronation: Policing of ProtestsNo. As I have said repeatedly, the Public Order Act and associated legislation are designed to prevent disruption to our fellow citizens’ day-to-day lives while enabling peaceful…09 May 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI congratulate the excellent police and crime commissioner in Nottinghamshire, Caroline Henry, who beat the police uplift target, delivering an extra 418 officers instead of the…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI am aware of the financial and policing pressures that summer tourism creates in places such as Devon and Cornwall, the Lake district, Dorset and many other parts of the country.…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement about the Government’s police uplift programme. Today is a significant day for policing. We can officially announce that our…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeFirst, let me just thank my right hon. Friend, whose work over a number of years did more than just lay the foundations for this programme: it really got it under way and on the…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI thank the Select Committee Chair for her question. It is first worth observing that the Metropolitan police have by far the highest per capita funding of any police force in the…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeOf course, I would be delighted to meet my right hon. Friend to discuss police funding in Lincolnshire as soon as possible. It is a topic I discuss with the excellent police and…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI do not accept that. I have read out twice now—I will not repeat them—the ONS figures in the crime survey for England and Wales showing reductions in crime since 2010. On…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThe College of Policing has just finished consulting on an updated statutory code of practice for vetting standards, which will come into force in the near future. As I said, we…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeMy hon. Friend is right to point to the fantastic police officer numbers in the Thames Valley. He is right that they are about 500 higher than in 2010. That is good news for…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThe numbers are important; if they had gone down, Opposition Members would be the first to complain. There are around 500 more officers in the Thames Valley force than under the…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThat is a good note on which to end. Yes, police and crime commissioner Katy Bourne and Chief Constable Jo Shiner, both of whom I have met, have done a fantastic job in Sussex of…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeWe have regular discussions about this topic with the Attorney General’s Office and with the Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill. Some police officers feel that they would…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point about police officer safety. Of course, that concerns all of us, across the whole United Kingdom, but officers in Northern Ireland…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI congratulate the excellent police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, Alison Hernandez, for delivering record officer numbers. There are 3,716 police officers in…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThat sounds like an excellent initiative to ensure that police are based in local communities. I strongly commend my hon. Friend and the local police and crime commissioner for…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI thank my hon. Friend for his campaigning work for the police and the public in Sussex. Katy Bourne, the police and crime commissioner, does a fantastic job. I have met her many…26 Apr 2023