Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jan 2017
Policing and Crime Bill
"Section 40 should not be introduced. To say to 90% of the local, regional and national press that they have to be forced into a group they do not want to join is bullying of the worst kind. If it were to happen in other countries, the Council of Europe …..."Peter Bottomley - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Operation Midland: Henriques Report
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Operation Midland: Henriques Report
"The Minister is helping the debate, but may I pursue the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon)? Rather than having to go to the extreme of whistleblowing and making a formal complaint, why cannot someone say to their leading officer, “What on earth are …..."Peter Bottomley - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 14th June 2016
Asked by:
Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the Metropolitan Police is of obtaining a transcript of the Southwark Crown Court trial of charges against Gumpal Viladi.
Answered by Mike Penning
The cost of obtaining any court transcript depends on the length of the proceedings.
The exact cost of the transcript in this case is unknown as no transcript has been requested to date by the Metropolitan Police Service.
Written Question
Tuesday 14th June 2016
Asked by:
Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Metropolitan Police have provided her with a copy of the memorandum of a conviction/order entered in the Register of Lambeth East Juvenile Court that records the proving on 1 April 1987 of offences or complaints by PC Markwick by a defendant aged over 16 on 7 November 1986.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Metropolitan Police Service has not provided this document to the Home Office.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Hillsborough
"What we can learn from the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) who raised the question of the Stephen Lawrence investigation is that people can come to Members of Parliament—either as families or as members of the professional services, including the ambulance service and the police—and if there is some …..."Peter Bottomley - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Mar 2016
Policing and Crime Bill
"This Second Reading debate is not the time to go into the details of the case of former sergeant Gurpal Virdi, but will the Home Secretary ask her advisers to talk to the IPCC about why it is saying that his complaint should be referred back to the Met’s department …..."Peter Bottomley - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 18th September 2015
Asked by:
Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on when former Metropolitan Police officer Gurpal Virdi was authorised to drive a police vehicle.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office does not hold information on when police officers are authorised to drive police vehicles. This information is held by individual police forces.
Written Question
Wednesday 16th September 2015
Asked by:
Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Metropolitan Police first had authorisation to issue and allow officers to use a collapsible baton.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Metropolitan Police Service first had authorisation to use a collapsible baton on 28 June 1995.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Jan 2015
Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill
"Gérard Biard, the editor- in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine which has been attacked, has said:
“A newspaper is not a weapon of war.”
The fact that it has been attacked is an example of how some people object to what others say and do. When I stopped …..."Peter Bottomley - View Speech
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