Iam beginning week two as the new Policing Minister, and I wanted to come to see you all, to listen to what you say, and to spend a bit of time with you. I have to go back to do a debate in Parliament so I can’t stay for the whole day, but this is the start of a relationship, and I hope you forgive me for not spending more time here.

I was the Shadow Policing Minister for three years. Paul Fotheringham, I think, was in charge then, and we had a really good relationship. We would meet regularly, it was during the covid period where the sort of partnership working between the Supers, the Fed and the NPCC was really instrumental in making sure that policing during that very difficult time was done with as much clarity and certainty and leadership as possible in what was a very changing envir

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