Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Dan Jarvis
Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she plans to take to improve morale in the police.
Damian Green
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office) , The Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice
holding answer
This Government's reforms add up to the most radical overhaul to the policing landscape in 50 years. By removing targets, reducing bureaucracy and increasing discretion we are empowering officers to fulfil their primary role which is fighting crime.
I, along with other Ministers and officials, maintain regular contact with police forces and officers so that their role in reducing crime receives recognition. Crime is falling and our reforms are working.
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