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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the Minister for her response. In many ways, we are in the same place. We are trying to make this new duty as effective as it can be. I would like to test the will of the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Sir Charles, I am sorry about turning my back previously. It was a very appealing amendment and it is hard not to look.25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I agree that they do not have a choice, but I have met young people who committed crimes as a child who believed that they did have a choice and that they were making the right…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Sadly, that tale is probably not uncommon. I am sure that the response of agencies to girls is better than it was, but it is still not joined up in a way that provides the support…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Yes, my hon. Friend is right. They all need to join up, but some organisations have asked questions about how such things will join up effectively to ensure that offshoots of…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend is exactly right. We do not disagree with the premise of what is in the Bill, but we think those two things need to come together. I am sure we all have examples of…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I completely agree. When we talk about violent crime, there is often a moral panic about what is happening, and we often see very polarised responses. Either it is all about more…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for allowing me to get a glass of water.25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 78, in clause 7, page 7, line 33, after “violence”, insert “and safeguard children involved in serious violence” This amendment, together with Amendments…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I congratulate my hon. Friend on the very powerful case she is making. It reminds me of a conversation that I had recently with police officers, who were talking about the number…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)The NPCC made exactly that point: people will have different levels of training. It just wants reassurance about officers who are not trained to do something that they end up…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is right; there are many other processes in place for when an accident occurs. As soon as an accident occurred, the IOPC would investigate why it…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)We support clauses 4 to 6, which relate to police driving standards. The Opposition have been calling for some years for proper legal protections for police officers when they…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Thank you, Sir Charles. Clause 3 would allow police specials—volunteer police officers—to become members of the Police Federation, a proposal that we support. I wanted to say a…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It would be good to hear the Minister’s view on that in his response. To finish my remarks on clause 2, which recognises the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Clause 2, as the Minister, who is my parliamentary neighbour, has outlined, increases the maximum penalty for assaulting an emergency worker from 12 months to two years. We…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I was proposing to say a few words.25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for her responses. On amendments 76 and 77, I stress again how keen the police world is that we make some progress on those two issues. I noted that she said…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)If the board is not on a statutory footing, it does not much matter who is chairing it, because there is no statutory line of accountability. If it is not on the face of the Bill,…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. She is absolutely right, and all the police organisations have been really clear that this is how we get the best outcome from the…25 May 2021