Reducing poverty ‘best way’ to cut inner-city crime – police chief
Andy Cooke, Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, said if he was given a £5bn budget to cut crime, most of it would be spent trying to tackle poverty.
Andy Cooke, Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, said if he was given a £5bn budget to cut crime, most of it would be spent trying to tackle poverty.
“Tagging them simply stigmatises them drinking alcohol and doesn’t address the root cause of the problem."
New figures show police were victims in up to half of the hate crimes charged in some places - despite making up a tiny proportion of overall cases.
DUP MP Gavin Robinson said: "The loose and lazy way this legislation is drafted would make a dictator blush.
The Good Law Project said the controversial new bill was an attempt to "silence dissent".
Sir Julian King told MPs that “data adequacy” for police was the “most significant, outstanding, unresolved issue” which had come out of the UK’s security agreement with the EU.
And there was the small issue of a massive, irretrievable data loss.
Sir Keir Starmer - a prosecutor, of course - dared to ask Don John if he would be happy for his kids to live on free school meal parcels. To be fair they could be for all he knows. He has had plenty of of goomahs during his reign of ...
"The face of former PM Theresa May is an absolute picture when Michael Gove tells her British people would be safer from crime and terrorism if the government fails to agree crime and security agreements with EU. She could seen saying “what?!!!!!”"
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