Nick Herbert's talk in webchat
In a webchat yesterday Nick Herbert talked about his commitment to police community support officers and scrapping the policing pledge.
The policing minister today answered questions about policing, and the planned policing reforms which are currently being consulted on with the public.
The hour-long Q&A was hosted on the .聽Questions were submitted directly to the website and via Twitter. Sample questions included whether police community support officers would be scrapped, and why the policing pledge has been dropped.
Mr Herbert said he didn鈥檛 agree with聽merging police forces, saying 鈥榳e鈥檙e opposed to compulsory force mergers to create regional police forces, which would be more distant from their communities - big isn鈥檛 always beautiful鈥�.
Take part in our consultation
Earlier this week, the Home Office launched the consultation , which contains proposals for ways to make police in England and Wales more responsive, more accountable, more effective, and better value for money.
The consultation asks what you think about:
- electing police and crime commissioners who will make sure your local police focus on what is important to you
- creating a powerful new national crime agency to lead the fight against organised crime and strengthen border security
- ensuring police forces work more closely with each other and share resources where they can
- cutting bureaucracy and removing restrictive health and safety procedures to free up officers鈥� time
- getting people more involved in the work of their police forces
