Clause 51 - Powers of police civilians
Anti-social Behaviour Bill
5:00 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
The Minister knows our concern, because we have debated it many times. People would prefer to see more police officers, rather than community support officers. We do not have a problem with the Government amendments, because we understand that community support officers exist and it is sensible that the powers are to be extended to what the Government call police civilians. However, we hope that the Government will listen to us when we debate these matters in other parts of the legislation in due course.