Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:15 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Jan Berry: This is another area where you would need to take that into account in any planning. If it is something that has to be done quickly, clearly you would need to take account of children. But most of these cases will be well-planned operations. We will know in advance if we anticipate children being on the premises and we will take the actions that you need to take.

We rely on other partners, because at the end of the day we are police officers and we do not necessarily have the ability to house children and other people who may be removed from those premises and need to be put into safety. But we have partners who will assist us in that process. I would anticipate that that is part of the planning process. That does not make it easy, but that is why we need to involve partners when acting in this sort of way.