Safer Neighbourhood Teams
(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what effect changes in the size and capacity of Police Safer Neighbourhood teams in England and Wales has had on their capacity to collect intelligence on (a) extremist behaviour and (b) gang crime.
This question was answered on 8th September 2017
Decisions on the size and composition of the workforce including Safer Neighbourhood teams are for the local Chief Constable and the directly accountable Police and Crime Commissioner of each force. It is up to them to decide what the most effective deployment of their resources may be in tackling gang crime and extremist behaviour.