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Police Mergers

Asked if the mergers of some parts of the police force was still going ahead the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that John Reid would be making a speech tomorrow and he didn’t want to pre-empt that. He had said last month however that consultation would continue and that would be the theme of his speech tomorrow. Asked if he was saying that the Home Secretary wasn’t ruling the mergers out, the PMOS repeated that journalists should wait until tomorrow. Put to him that their news desks wouldn’t wait, the PMOS said that sometimes it was the job of a political editor to tell the news desks that some times life was tough.

Put to him that it was even tougher when the Chief Constable of Lancashire had already held a press conference that morning and said that the mergers were off, the PMOS said that he was entitled to his view but people should wait and see what John Reid had to say tomorrow. Asked whose idea it was in the first place, the PMOS said that Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary had published a report which said that to achieve efficiencies you needed to have more cooperation between the police. That was what had started the ball rolling on this issue.

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