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Labour Police and Crime Commissioners have expressed their concerns at what the government continue to state in relation to protection for police funding. * In 2015 Spending Review, the government gave a commitment that there would be no cuts...
Leading Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, has taken her demand for action to the very top of government. In a letter to the Home Secretary, Dame Vera has demanded that extra funding be made available to...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, and a patron of Operation Encompass, which champions engagement with schools when a child is known to have experienced domestic abuse, yesterday, (Tuesday, 19 September) welcomed the findings of an Ofsted report which...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, has spoken out once again about the unlawful storage of millions of innocent people’s images, as part of a national police facial recognition database. The Commissioner, who has previously raised...
A series of trials at Newcastle Crown Court under the banners Operation Sanctuary and Operation Shelter ended today and reporting restrictions have been lifted. Successful convictions were obtained for 93 offences of sexual exploitation against vulnerable females with some...
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