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Written Answers — Home Department: Police (5 Jun 2003)

Mr Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those police forces which operate anti-gun crime initiatives similar to Operation Trident in the Metropolitan police; and what funding is available in each case.

Tackling Drugs: Gang Culture (22 May 2003)

Mr Simon Hughes: The Minister may be aware that those who deal with gun crime in London, Operation Trident officers in the Met, say that 99 per cent. of the crimes that they investigate are fuelled by crack cocaine. The Minister may also be aware that, in the past 10 years, the street price of cocaine has dropped by a third, and that of crack by a fifth. There are huge profits to be made. I gather that one...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 126 - Purposes of sentencing (30 Jan 2003)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...not always, of course, but in the majority of cases—a background of deprivation, illiteracy, innumeracy, and so on. The other day we were debating gun crime. The police in London on Operation Trident do profiles of the people who are most likely to be involved. The vast majority conform to a sequential series of common characteristics.

Gun Crime (29 Jan 2003)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...are increasingly doing—who have important lessons for us. We also have to listen to the police. Like the hon. Lady, I, too, recently received an update from the people running Operation Trident, who have done extremely good work. Police forces throughout the country and the National Criminal Intelligence Service all have an important role to play and we must learn from their...

Opposition Policies (19 Jan 1990)

Mr Simon Hughes: ...nuclear weapons in the belief that they deter or we should not have them because we do not believe they deter. If Labour does not believe that we should have them, then it should not cancel one Trident, it must get rid of the lot. The Labour party has so far presented an incredible middle way. Labour Members try to pretend that they are great Europeans, but when we discuss imports,...