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‘I don’t feel safe in my town’: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper addresses UK residents concerns over policing
National World - LocalTV
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22/11/2024
As part of NationalWorld’s Silent Crime campaign, residents went to the the Home Office to speak to Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper and Policing Minister Diana Johnson.
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There is no response from the police to ordinary crime.
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And as a police officer who's very proud to be a police officer,
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it saddens me. And what worries me is you start to do things,
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and I'm so pleased you are going to do things.
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If you don't lift the spirits of those rank-and-file officers,
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they will just think, oh God, we've got another thing to do.
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You have to take them with you because they are demoralised.
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I don't feel safe to go out. I was just saying before,
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I will not go down to Blackpool Town Centre on my own
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because I don't feel safe, and it shouldn't have to be like that.
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My town's in my constituency, which is West Yorkshire,
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and Diana said they feel the same in Hull,
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and it's the same things right round the country.
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Talk to people in Norwich, talk to people in Burnage.
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All over the country, you have the same sorts of stories.
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Town centres, neighbourhood police, we don't see the police on the beat.
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We're just determined to go back to that neighbourhood policing,
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have a proper guarantee of neighbourhood policing,
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and I'd like to see it start with town centre patrols
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because I think it's that town centre confidence
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that you have to be able to tackle antisocial behaviour.
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Well, I think it was really good to meet Annie and Brian and Tim
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and hear their experiences.
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Sadly, those experiences I've heard so many times before,
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and in my own constituency in Hull, but in other areas of the country,
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that antisocial behaviour that causes such upset, distress in communities
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and can really affect people,
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having to live with either motorbikes or drug-taking
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or just that kind of antisocial behaviour on the street,
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people drinking, things like that.
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So, unfortunately, this is far too common, and that's why we need to take action.
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Feeling quite positive, actually.
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She's a lovely lady, and she did listen,
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and I'm feeling hopeful that we are going to get somewhere
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with the crime and the lack of policing,
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and I think she will help us. Don't you, Brian?
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I agree, yes. She's a very affable lady,
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did seem to be really interested in what we had to say,
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did seem quite knowledgeable about the issues that we raised.
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And Tim, obviously, you're a former police officer.
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How did you feel about what was said,
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and what your hopes are for the future?
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I feel reassured that they understand the scale of the problem,
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the deterioration in the police service over the last 13 years
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since austerity kicked in.
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So they've got a big job, and they know that,
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and I'll be interested to see how quickly they make progress.
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But getting police officers back on the streets,
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doing frontline duties to try and reduce this silent crime
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that we're talking about is so, so important to communities.
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So, fingers crossed.
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