Police Funding: Cambridgeshire

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:00 pm on 6 January 2025.

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Photo of Patrick Spencer Patrick Spencer Conservative, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich 10:00, 6 January 2025

My hon. Friend is making an interesting point about the reality of policing in a rural area. My constituency has one of the most consistently underfunded police forces in the country. Two misconceptions are that there is no crime in rural areas, and that if it does exist, it does not require the same manpower as other areas. Both those assumptions are absolutely wrong. The reality is that crime in rural areas is down to county lines, trafficking, cyber-crime and organised crime. Can my hon. Friend attest to the changing nature of crime in Cambridgeshire that we experience in Suffolk, and to the fact that rural crime is not easy to police?