Policing and Crime

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:53 pm on 29 January 2020.

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Photo of Kit Malthouse Kit Malthouse The Minister of State, Home Department 12:53, 29 January 2020

There speaks the voice of experience. It is great to see a former leader of Westminster City Council, and a successor in my council ward, in this place. She is quite right: that was something that we recognised, certainly when I was at City Hall, in our joint engagement meetings, when we put every single local authority in London alongside every single borough commander and anyone else in the borough who wanted to fight crime, and talked about our common problems and our shared solutions, bearing in mind that no one organisation or geography has a monopoly on wisdom and that very often local authorities are closer to the problem than the police can be.