Home Affairs

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:04 pm on 20 November 2002.

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Photo of David Blunkett David Blunkett The Secretary of State for the Home Department 4:04, 20 November 2002

The national policing plan aims to do just that. It aims to ensure that, within the overall framework, the objectives are laid down at local level and that there is proper accountability as well as responsibility for operational policing at local level. We would welcome any suggestions that would strengthen the plan, because I am strongly in favour of that. I want to ensure that we in South Yorkshire do as well on street crime as the West Midlands or the Met. I look forward to South Yorkshire doing that.