Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird DBE QC, was awarded the Suzy Lamplugh National Trust Safer Workplace Award at a ceremony held in London on Thursday, 23RD March. Dame Vera received the award in recognition of her commitment...
Newsletter Spring 2017
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird DBE QC, along with Chief Constable Steve Ashman, last week welcomed Dr Phillip Lee MP to Newcastle to hear about the good work taking place to help and support victims of crime...
Latest figures show continued success for Northumbria Police’s nationally praised Street Triage service – demonstrating a continued commitment to keeping people with mental health issues out of custody in Northumbria. The Street Triage team which operates in collaboration with...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird DBE QC, has welcomed new sentencing guidelines, published by the Sentencing Council, to help ‘avoid criminalising children unnecessarily’. The guidelines for judges and magistrates, published today, state that the social and ethnic...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird QC, has welcomed ‘long-overdue’ plans for sex education and relationships education (SRE) to be made compulsory in all schools. Ms Baird has campaigned on the matter for years, along with many others,...
PCC Newsletter – Council Tax Information 2017-18
Northumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner , Vera Baird QC, said: “Once again we have heard the Government talk the talk about how committed they are to protecting police budgets, yet deliver the complete opposite. In Northumbria we’ve taken hit...
A new report from Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird DBE QC highlights how even small changes to court processes based on the observations of a unique scheme of Court Observers could help improve the rape conviction rate. The 12 observers, local members of the public, watched on a rota...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird DBE QC, has welcomed today’s government announcement that 76 projects across the country will receive a share of £20 million to support victims of domestic abuse – £660,000 of this will pay...
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