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Police Reforms

Asked about David Cameron’s suggestion that the Home Secretary had said one thing and the Prime Minister expressed his preferred options differently, such as the one at his press conference on Monday on the idea of forces combining over certain things, the PMOS said that Hazel Blears had dealt with this elsewhere this afternoon.

She had said, quite rightly, that in different areas different approaches would fit the circumstances. It was important that we bore in mind what this was for, which was to answer the critique set out in the HMIC report. The Prime Minister had detailed that and the need to be locally accountable as well as to be effective against organised crime and terrorism. This was the balance that needed to be struck. We were in the middle of a process of getting views and we should wait to see what came out of it.

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