Extract from Home Office questions: County Lines Drugs Gangs - July 12
Tuesday, 13 July 2021 08:42
Antony Higginbotham (Burnley) (Con): Drug dealing is a despicable
crime that preys on the vulnerable, damages communities and causes
misery to so many. Locally, the Burnley and Padiham neighbourhood
policing team has set up a taskforce to tackle this issue. Will the
Minister confirm that local police forces will continue to have the
resources and support they need really to tackle this issue and rid
our communities of it? Will he meet me and our police and crime
commissioner, Andrew Snowden,...Request free trial
(Burnley) (Con): Drug dealing is a despicable
crime that preys on the vulnerable, damages communities and causes
misery to so many. Locally, the Burnley and Padiham neighbourhood
policing team has set up a taskforce to tackle this issue. Will the
Minister confirm that local police forces will continue to have the
resources and support they need really to tackle this issue and rid
our communities of it? Will he meet me and our police and
crime commissioner, , to see what more we can do?
The Minister for Crime and Policing (): I am
always happy to meet Police and Crime Commissioners and
their Members of Parliament to talk about fighting crime, and I am
very pleased that my hon. Friend is so embedded in the collective
mission to reduce crime in his constituency. He is quite right that
we are having enormous success with county lines, and that is off
the back of significant Government investment. I am hopeful that
Police and Crime Commissioners can see
the wider benefits of that programme in suppression of violence in
their areas and will supplement the work that we are doing, but he
should be assured that we will be making a very strong case in the
spending round for continued investment. The one thing I have
learned about the Treasury over the past few years is that it likes
investing in success, and we are certainly having that with county
lines.
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