
Adam Simmonds: How Free Schools can help defeat crime
We know that children who are permanently excluded from school are more likely to enter the justice system.
Adam Simmonds is the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire
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It’s co-locaction, co-location, co-location.
The equivalent of 250,000 people every year are stopped and subjected to hugely intrusive searches without the police sticking to the rules.
Let’s have a Queens Speech that puts better public services, crime prevention and victims at its very heart
Labour’s muddled policies on policing would remove local accountability.
If the industry doesn’t meet its responsibilities, then government must step in.
Northamptonshire Police now has the highest proportion of Special Constables in the country – and there’s better protectiion for witnesses.
Labour’s plans for a return to council run police authorities would be a backwards step