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HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaI thank my noble friend for that. As I explained from the Dispatch Box last week, the Home Office believes it is necessary to obtain evidence and make sure this is an…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaI will happily do that.23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaI agree with the noble Lord and thank him for the clarification—the professor predated me, obviously. Operation Soteria is bringing together all aspects of policing and CPS work…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaMy Lords, we have put a lot of funding into the police, as the noble Baroness will know. The Ministry of Justice has allocated significant funds towards victims’ groups, and so on…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaMy Lords, I spoke from the Dispatch Box last week on the review into dismissal processes. We talked a lot then about vetting and the various changes that have been made to both…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaAs the noble Baroness will be aware, that is part of the terms of reference of the review into dismissals that was announced last week, as I talked about at the Dispatch Box. It…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaAction is being taken on both of those things. The noble Lord is completely right about specialist knowledge, and this finding is now being applied in South Wales Police and the…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaAbsolutely—I can give that assurance. I am also going to go on to one of the reasons why it was a little difficult in the past to prosecute some of these cases; it was to do with…23 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI echo the noble Baroness’s comments about the vast majority of serving officers who do such a fantastic job, whom I have already referenced. As the noble Baroness says, their…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, and the noble Baroness, Lady Burt, for their remarks. I start by echoing my right honourable friend the Home Secretary, who the…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI agree with the noble Baroness that “misconduct” is not the right word for this; this is serious and violent crime. She is 100% right on that. I cannot answer the questions in…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI entirely agree with my noble friend. One of the reasons for setting up the dismissals review is that Sir Mark Rowley has publicly requested that we look into this, to make his…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI thank the noble Baroness for those remarks. I am not going to speculate on the whole “blind eye” situation; that would be unwise given that the case, as the Lord Speaker…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe noble and gallant Lord makes some extremely good points, if I may say so. They echo some of the points from the noble Lord, Lord Dear, a couple of months ago when I was…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickI reassure my noble friend that the review into police culture will be a review into all the police culture. I can confidently say that because I know it to be the case. As I just…19 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThe noble Lord raises a good point. I think that I have dealt with this to some extent by talking about the Home Secretary’s letter and instructions to the College of Policing as…19 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillThe noble Lord makes a very fair point. I will certainly make sure that that message is conveyed. As I have said, the Government do not think it would be appropriate at this point…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, with the greatest respect, this is a different Government and we have moved on. The ISC very much has the respect of certainly this part of the Government. If I may say…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, Amendment 124 creates the power to extend any provision in the Bill with or without modification to the sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus by way of…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security Bill18 Jan 2023