(Con)...The
Serious Violence Strategy sets out a range of universal and
targeted interventions, including the early intervention youth
fund, which will be launched this summer, to
which Police
and Crime Commissioners can apply. The fund
is designed to help local partnerships support early intervention
and prevention activity with young people. It has £11 million
available over two years to support such local activity and will
link up with existing programmes...
...Taking effective action means that the issue needs to be
understood and owned locally. Communities and the relevant partners
must also see tackling serious violence as their
problem. Police
and Crime Commissioners have a vital leadership
role to play through working with and across community safety
partnerships. Other local partnerships can also play an important
role...
(Con):...Finally,
I will say one or two things about the police—I was interested in
the speech given by the noble Lord, . In the preamble,
written by the former Home Secretary, she says that the,
“Police and Crime Commissioners have a
pivotal role to play”.
Nothing the Government and their predecessor have done has been
more of a disappointment than the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners. One only has
to look at Wiltshire to see how totally useless they are, and to
put them into the foreword is an abuse of the foreword itself. I
would like to see the police going back to doing a bit more
policing...
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