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Police reform and social responsibility Bill

My hon. Friend makes a good point. For me, the natural corollary of that frustration at not seeing police on the streets or feeling that there are too many in back and middle offices, is that the public feel that they have no one to complain to. People do not know how to complain. They do not know who their police authority is—we have seen that from the surveys—and there is no single, high-profile, accountable individual to whom they can complain. That compounds the frustration that my hon. Friend talks about. They do not know to whom to go to say, ““We want more police on the streets and we are going to hold you to account at the ballot box unless you deliver it.””
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
532 c819 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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