Results 1-7 of 7 for trident speaker:Vernon Coaker

Written Answers — Home Department: Offensive Weapons: Crime Prevention (2 Apr 2008)

Vernon Coaker: ...banning the sale, manufacture and importation of tandem cartridge air systems, such as the Brocock. On enforcement: We support the work of dedicated intelligence-led enforcement such as Operation Trident, which has a good track record in dealing with gun crime in London. Similar operations have been established in other priority areas. We held a national firearms amnesty in April 2003,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Crimes of Violence: Greater London (7 Jan 2008)

Vernon Coaker: ...by 8 per cent. between 2005-06 and 2006-07. Estimates for 2007-08 are not available. The Government are undertaking a wide-ranging programme of work to tackle violent crime. In London, Operation Trident was set up in 1998 in response to a string of what are often called 'black-on-black' shootings. It is a Metropolitan Police Service team dedicated to tackling gun crime within the black...

Public Bill Committee: Serious Crime Bill: Clause 78 (10 Jul 2007)

Vernon Coaker: ...crime, we must ensure that the legislation that we pass is proportionate. Appropriate, proportionate, intelligence-led policing such as that conducted by the Metropolitan police through Operation Trident has proved to be successful in tackling gun crime. Stigmatising certain communities by cordoning off areas, which could happen under this clause, as my hon. Friend pointed out, would not...

Written Answers — Home Department: Firearms: Crime Prevention (9 Jul 2007)

Vernon Coaker: The Metropolitan police advise that the total number of people employed on Operation Trident is 375, which includes police staff as well as police officers. We fully support the work of intelligence-led police operations such as Operation Trident and other operations to tackle guns and gangs. Similar operations have been established in other areas affected by gun crime—for example,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Youth Crime (16 Apr 2007)

Vernon Coaker: ...the Home Office has provided grants to support the following organisations whose work is aimed at tackling youth crime, gun crime and gangs: Street Pastors, the Peace Alliance, Social Action Radio, Trident IAG, the Damilola Taylor Trust, Be Safe, Urban Concepts and Truce. The Home Office has also provided funding for combating youth crime to: the Fostering Network, the Hampton Trust, the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Gun Crime (27 Nov 2006)

Vernon Coaker: ...and strategic information to inform enforcement operations and longer-term policy work. The Government support the work of dedicated, intelligence-led gun crime operations such as Operation Trident in London and Operation X-Caliber in Greater Manchester, Ventara in the West Midlands and Stealth in Nottinghamshire, which are producing good results.

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 1999)

Mr Vernon Coaker: ...safeguards Bill included in the Queen's Speech, which will put into law international agreements on nuclear proliferation. Indeed, the Government have controlled the number of nuclear warheads on Trident submarines. We can also be proud of the role of British troops at the forefront of many peacekeeping operations and missions around the world. The way in which our armed forces operate is...