Extracts from Parliamentary proceedings: Police and Crime Commissioners - June 17
Friday, 18 June 2021 08:45
Extract from Business Questions Marco Longhi (Dudley North) (Con):
I am sorry to say that it came as no surprise to me when Labour
voted against tougher sentences for rapists and child rapists this
week. My constituency of Dudley North has been waiting for a new
police station in the centre of Dudley for many years, as was
promised by the Labour police and crime commissioner. Will my right
hon. Friend agree to explore this issue with me, and perhaps with
the Home Secretary, and agree to a...Request free trial
Extract from Business
Questions
(Dudley North) (Con): I am sorry to say that it came as
no surprise to me when Labour voted against tougher sentences for
rapists and child rapists this week. My constituency of Dudley
North has been waiting for a new police station in the centre of
Dudley for many years, as was promised by the Labour police
and crime commissioner. Will my right hon. Friend agree to
explore this issue with me, and perhaps with the Home Secretary,
and agree to a debate on the effectiveness of Police and Crime Commissioners more
generally?
Mr Rees-Mogg: My hon. Friend raises an important point. The
socialists, as always, are weak on crime and weak on the causes of
crime, and they have shown their true colours in the recent refusal
to support tougher sentences for violent criminals. Unfortunately,
socialist Police and Crime Commissioners
have been failing their constituents. I hope that my hon.
Friend will continue to hold his local PCC to
account and at the highest level, because the Government are
continuing to back the police and to support the public in fighting
to bring down crime.
Extract from Commons
debate on the Misuse of Drugs Act
(Easington) (Lab):...On that point, is the
Minister willing to commit to working with Police and Crime Commissioners to
try to ensure that in all force areas there is a treatment-first
approach to offenders with a history of substance
misuse?
The Minister for Crime and Policing ():...I do not have to commit, because
that is exactly what we are already doing in five parts of the
country. As the hon. Gentleman may know, I instituted a series of
projects going by the acronym ADDER—addiction, diversion,
disruption, enforcement and recovery —in five areas of the country
to build a new modus operandi on drugs, bringing Police and Crime Commissioners
and enforcement alongside health, local authority, housing
and other therapeutic providers to see if we can shift the numbers
in Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea
Bay...
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