Policing and Crime Bill
12:00 pm
Mr. Coaker: No. To tease this issue out, we talk about protective services and serious and organised crime as if they are the same thing. When you are looking at collaboration, you are talking about serious and organised crime—whatever that means—but you are also talking about IT systems, transport systems, horses and dogs, things that are related to murder investigations and protecting people from the most serious offenders. Some of those issues require different approaches from others. Serious and organised crime might need a more regional focus, whereas two or three forces might be involved in the issue of how many police forces have a mounted section. It is important to think about what is appropriate at a local level alongside the national parameters.