Cooper praises first responders after Liverpool crash

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper praises first responders for their efforts after a car rammed into pedestrians at a Liverpool FC victory parade on Monday. Cooper says, "we need to say huge thanks to all those who responded... who did the most professional job". The 53-year-old man thought to be the driver has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving, dangerous driving and attempted murder.     Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well the police have an important investigation underway and they need to

00:04make the operational decisions but we saw yesterday this real celebration of

00:10joy in the city turn into the most horrific incident and so as well as we

00:15all thinking of those who were injured and wishing them the very best recovery

00:20we also need to thank say huge thanks to all those who responded the police the

00:27ambulance service the fire service and all those who were involved yesterday

00:30many of whom I've met today who did the most professional job to make sure that

00:35lives were saved and like you said it was a big day hundreds of thousands of

00:40people were out celebrating here Merseyside police confirmed earlier that

00:44the car was able to get through a roadblock because it was following an

00:47ambulance is this a policing and local authorities failure do you think how is

00:51a car able to enter what was meant to be a pedestrianized safe zone well I've

00:56spoken to many of the police the ambulance service the fire service and

01:01local authority who were involved in responding yesterday to the most

01:05horrific incident it came after this day of celebration and joy in the city and

01:10the professionalism of their response the way in which they worked together to

01:15make sure that lives were saved and to be able to keep people safe I think was

01:20it's hugely important and we really thank them for that the investigation of

01:24course is ongoing into what happened and we need to let that police investigation

01:29take its course and they have my full support in that

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