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Police Mergers

Asked further about police mergers, the PMOS replied that the situation was as the Home Office had set out, which was that the consultation on this would continue, as John Reid had said last month. The PMOS said that Tony McNulty would be making a speech tomorrow, and he would set that out. There were two different issues. One was efficiency and effectiveness, which was what the HMIC report highlighted, and the other was local accountability. There was obviously a debate about how the two were reconciled, and that debate would continue.

Asked how we felt about Charles Clarke’s intervention, in which he said that the decision was weak, the PMOS said that that was probably based on some misreporting, which had said that a negative decision had been taken. The fact was that the consultation would continue, and it was about how we reconciled the two.

Put that Charles Clarke was talking very specifically about the Government’s failure to reach agreement over the Cumbrian and Lancashire forces, rather than any reports in general, the PMOS replied that in terms of the overall situation, it was as he had set out.

Asked if it was a question of money, and whether there was sufficient money to fund these mergers, and did we believe there was enough money, and if not, whose fault was that, the PMOS said that what he was not going to do was give a running commentary on a consultation process. The whole point of having a consultation process was to report to all interested parties, and we would continue to do that.

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