Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

Part of Bill Presented – in the House of Commons at 6:34 pm on 13 December 2010.

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Photo of Andrew Bridgen Andrew Bridgen Conservative, North West Leicestershire 6:34, 13 December 2010

Will the right hon. Gentleman cast his mind back to the cuckoo months of the previous Prime Minister's Administration, when the then Home Secretary, the former Member for Redditch, considered the idea of elected chiefs of police and then discarded it, not because of politicisation or fears about cost, but because of lobbying from Labour councillors who did not want to lose their lucrative positions on police authorities?