Category Archives: Crime

101 – why is the Home Office cutting it?

I’m really surprised by the news that the Home Office is planning to pull the funding on Hampshire’s 101 service from February.
This is one of those endless Home Office initiatives that actually seemed to be working!
As explained on the Government’s …

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CCTV

Fascinating visit to the CCTV control centre today. Although, overall, Winchester has relatively low crime figures, that doesn’t make things any better for any individual who is the victim of crime, and CCTV is having a good effect in …

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Meeting with Nick Clegg

After a meeting with Mark in his Westminster office to discuss our campaign plans, I went on to meet Nick Clegg MP to discuss the crime survey that we are launching in Winchester. We want to hear local people’s experiences …

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We can cut crime!

As some of you may have seen in the news, earlier today Ming Campbell and Nick Clegg launched our latest campaign – ‘We can cut crime’.
It lays out five Liberal Democrat priorities:

More police officers on the beat
Taking back town centres …

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Sound and fury signifying nothing

What a depressing Queen’s speech: full of more rhetorical Home Office legislation, sounding ‘tough’ for the tabloids, chipping away at freedom and fairness, but having little or no impact on terrorism, …

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