Oral Question: Police Effectiveness Home Office Questions

Speech by Annette Brooke MP delivered to Hazel Blears MP on Mon 31st Jan 2005

Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset, LD): Dorset is the second lowest funded police authority in the country, yet massive resources are allocated to Bournemouth at weekends to cope with the influx of binge drinkers from far and wide. What action will the Minister take to support Dorset police in maintaining effective policing for all Dorset residents throughout the county? Many are missing out because there are not as many community beat officers in all our communities as we would like.

Hazel Blears (Salford, Lab):

The hon. Lady will acknowledge that this year's police funding settlement is one of the best that we have seen in recent years. Extra money for the police ranges from 3.75 to 6.8 per cent. and, together with our record number of police officers—140,000—we also have 4,000 CSOs. It is important that those police officers provide a service throughout their communities. That is why we have introduced measures to tackle binge drinking in particular and to ensure that officers are not abstracted from those problems in future. I hope that the hon. Lady will welcome the proposals that we have recently issued for consultation.

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Previous speech: Westminster Hall: Government Priorities for Parents and Family Policy (Tue 7th Dec 2004).
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