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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I appreciate the Minister giving way. She says, “and their families.” She has just done some exemplary work on the Bill that has become the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and knows that…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)rose—25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Exactly. My hon. Friend used the phrase, “I did not even think about it” and that is what we have to change. The police covenant gives us the opportunity to turn that around and…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I support the amendment. To be quite honest, if I am on a train and something kicks off, I do not really care what police force the officer comes from. If they are a member of the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I did not realise until I started working on child abuse that there is an amazing charity called the Railway Children based in Liverpool and in India. The train network is often…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is what I mean when I talk about recognition, a change of culture and early intervention. Members probably do not know that I trained and…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. GCHQ has a large footprint in his constituency, so he has seen at first hand that correct identification and the provision of…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)rose—25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I support everything my hon. Friend is saying. The examples that she and I and Members here have given are the big trauma incidents that we recognise as likely to have an impact,…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 2, in clause 1, page 2, line 2, after “workforce,”, insert “including the impact of working with traumatised survivors on officers’ wellbeing and morale,”…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)This is what I do not understand: throughout my career in Parliament I have tried to focus on prevention, because it is cheaper. The bottom line shows that it is much better at…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend knows the issues intimately and has tried to address them in the past. She speaks with a great deal of experience and she is absolutely right. I was speaking to my…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to speak here today and that the first amendment is on the police covenant, which has support across the House. The amendment would make the covenant as strong…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I do welcome it, but it is not just the Police Federation, NARPO or the College of Policing that are saying that; it is what I hear when I speak to serving officers. I had a long…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I completely agree. Now is the perfect time for those reasons, and also because hopefully we are coming out of the pandemic. The service that the police gave during the pandemic…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, but the case study from NARPO shows that that does not always happen. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point, but we ought to extend that support to…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend reminds me of another constituent who is no longer a police officer, unfortunately. He went to what he was told was a domestic incident, was let in and found…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend puts it far more elegantly than I could; I absolutely agree. The police covenant talks about wellbeing. We need the word “trauma” in there, because that is what we…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Chair, I apologise for running late. Ellie, I am reeling from something that our Front-Bench spokesperson said in the last session. In chapter 3, on the extraction of…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q One of the amendments I am putting forward is the presumption that a vulnerable witness can have special measures unless the judge deems otherwise. Would you be comfortable with…20 May 2021