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Police

Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the areas to which police neighbourhood teams have been allocated in each London local authority area. [24224]

Hazel Blears: The roll-out of Safer Neighbourhoods Teams is a matter for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.

A list of areas where Safer Neighbourhoods teams are currently operating has been provided by the Metropolitan Police Service and is contained in the table.
Safer Neighbourhoods Teams

Local authorityDistrict
Barking and DagenhamAbbey
Barking and DagenhamChadwell Heath
Barking and DagenhamGascoigne
Barking and DagenhamGoresbrook
Barking and DagenhamMayesbrook
Barking and DagenhamRiver
Barking and DagenhamThames
Barking and DagenhamVillage
Barking and DagenhamWhalebone
BarnetBurnt Oak
BarnetChilds Hill
BarnetColindale
BarnetEast Barnet
BarnetEast Finchley
BarnetEdgware
BarnetHigh Barnet
BarnetWest Hendon
BexleyBelvedere
BexleyChristchurch
BexleyColyers
BexleyCray Meadows
BexleyEast Wickham
BexleyErith
BexleyFalconwood and Welling
BexleyNorth End
BexleySt Mary's
BexleyThamesmead East
BrentDudden Hill
BrentFryent
BrentHarlesden
BrentKensal Green
BrentKilburn
BrentStonebridge
BrentWembley Central
BrentWillesden Green
BromleyBiggin Hill
BromleyBromley Town
BromleyCopers Cope
BromleyCray Valley East
BromleyDarwin
BromleyHayes and Coney Hall
BromleyMottingham and Chislehurst North
BromleyOrpington
BromleyPenge and Cator
CamdenCantelowes
CamdenGospel Oak
CamdenHampstead Town
CamdenHaverstock
CamdenKilburn
CamdenRegent's Park
CamdenSt. Pancras and Somers Town
CamdenSwiss Cottage
CroydonBensham Manor
CroydonBroad Green
CroydonCoulsdon East
CroydonFieldway
CroydonNew Addington
CroydonSelhurst
CroydonSouth Norwood
CroydonThornton Heath
CroydonTriangle
CroydonWaddon
CroydonWoodside
EalingDormers Wells
EalingEaling Broadway
EalingEast Acton
EalingNortholt West End
EalingNorwood Green
EalingSouth Acton
EalingSouthall Broadway
EalingSouthall Green
EnfieldEdmonton Green
EnfieldEnfield Highway
EnfieldEnfield Lock
EnfieldLower Edmonton
EnfieldPalmers Green
EnfieldSouthbury
EnfieldSouthgate
EnfieldTown
EnfieldUpper Edmonton
GreenwichAbbey Wood
GreenwichCharlton
GreenwichColdharbour and New Eltham
GreenwichEltham West
GreenwichGreenwich West
GreenwichMiddle Park and Sutcliffe
GreenwichWoolwich Common
GreenwichWoolwich Riverside
HackneyBrownswood
HackneyChatham
HackneyDalston
HackneyHackney Central
HackneyHaggerston
HackneyLeabridge
HackneyNew River
HackneyQueensbridge
Hammersmith and FulhamAddison
Hammersmith and FulhamAskew
Hammersmith and FulhamCollege Park and Old Oak
Hammersmith and FulhamFulham Broadway
Hammersmith and FulhamHammersmith Broadway
Hammersmith and FulhamNorth End
Hammersmith and FulhamParsons Green and Walham
Hammersmith and FulhamRavenscourt Park
Hammersmith and FulhamSands End
Hammersmith and FulhamShepherd's Bush Green
Hammersmith and FulhamTown
Hammersmith and FulhamWormholt and White City
HaringeyCrouch End
HaringeyHornsey
HaringeyMuswell Hill
HaringeyStroud Green
HaringeyTottenham Green
HaringeyWest Green
HaringeyWhite Hart Lane
HaringeyWoodside
HarrowEdgware
HarrowGreenhill
HarrowKenton West
HarrowMarlborough
HarrowPinner
HarrowRoxbourne
HarrowRoxeth
HarrowWealdstone
HaveringBrooklands
HaveringElm Park
HaveringHeaton
HaveringHylands
HaveringRainham and Wennington
HaveringSouth Hornchurch
HaveringSt. Andrew's
HaveringUpminster
HillingdonBotwell
HillingdonSouth Ruislip
HillingdonTownfield
HillingdonUxbridge North
HillingdonUxbridge South
HillingdonWest Drayton
HillingdonYeading
HillingdonYiewsley
HounslowBedfont
HounslowCranford
HounslowFeltham North
HounslowHeston East
HounslowHeston West
HounslowHounslow Central
HounslowHounslow West
HounslowOsterley and Spring Grove
IslingtonBunhill
IslingtonCaledonian
IslingtonClerkenwell
IslingtonFinsbury Park
IslingtonHillrise
IslingtonHolloway
IslingtonMildmay
IslingtonSt. Mary's
IslingtonTollington
Kensington and ChelseaBrompton
Kensington and ChelseaColville
Kensington and ChelseaCourtfield
Kensington and ChelseaCremorne
Kensington and ChelseaEarl's Court
Kensington and ChelseaGolborne
Kensington and ChelseaHolland
Kensington and ChelseaSt. Charles
Kingston upon ThamesBerrylands
Kingston upon ThamesBeverley
Kingston upon ThamesCanbury
Kingston upon ThamesChessington South
Kingston upon ThamesCoombe Hill
Kingston upon ThamesNorbiton
Kingston upon ThamesSt. Mark's
Kingston upon ThamesTolworth and Hook Rise
LambethBishop's
LambethClapham Town
LambethColdharbour
LambethFerndale
LambethHerne Hill
LambethOval
LambethStreatham Wells
LambethVassall
LewishamBlackheath
LewishamBrockley
LewishamEvelyn
LewishamForest Hill
LewishamNew Cross
LewishamPerry Vale
LewishamSydenham
LewishamTelegraph Hill
MertonAbbey
MertonColliers Wood
MertonCricket Green
MertonFigge's Marsh
MertonGraveney
MertonLavender Fields
MertonLongthornton
MertonPollards Hill
MertonRavensbury
MertonSt. Helier
NewhamBeckton
NewhamBoleyn
NewhamCanning Town North
NewhamCanning Town South
NewhamCustom House
NewhamEast Ham North
NewhamLittle llford
NewhamStratford and New Town
RedbridgeBridge
Red bridgeChurch End
RedbridgeClementswood
RedbridgeGoodmayes
RedbridgeHainault
RedbridgeLoxford
RedbridgeMayfield
RedbridgeWanstead
Richmond upon ThamesBarnes
Richmond upon ThamesHam Petersham and Richmond
Riverside
Richmond upon ThamesHampton North
Richmond upon ThamesHeathfield
Richmond upon ThamesMortlake and Barnes Common
Richmond upon ThamesSouth Richmond
Richmond upon ThamesTeddington
Richmond upon ThamesTwickenham Riverside
SouthwarkCamberwell Green
SouthwarkCathedrals
SouthwarkEast Walworth
SouthwarkFaraday
SouthwarkLivesey
SouthwarkPeckham
SouthwarkRotherhithe
SouthwarkSouth Bermondsey
SouthwarkSurrey Docks
SouthwarkThe Lane
SuttonBeddington South
SuttonBelmont
SuttonCarshalton Central
SuttonCarshalton South and Clockhouse
SuttonCheam
SuttonNonsuch
SuttonSt. Helier
SuttonSutton Central
SuttonSutton South
SuttonWellington South
SuttonWandle Valley
SuttonWorcester Park
Tower HamletsBethnal Green North
Tower HamletsBethnal Green South
Tower HamletsBlackwall and Cubitt Town
Tower HamletsBow East
Tower HamletsBow West
Tower HamletsBromley-by-Bow
Tower HamletsEast India and Lansbury
Tower HamletsLimehouse
Tower HamletsMile End and Globe Town
Tower HamletsMile End East
Tower HamletsMillwall
Tower HamletsShadwell
Tower HamletsSpitalfields and Banglatown
Tower HamletsSt. Dunstan's and Stepney Green
Tower HamletsSt. Katherine's and Wapping
Tower HamletsWeavers
Tower HamletsWhitechapel
Waltham ForestCann Hall
Waltham ForestCathall
Waltham ForestHigh Street
Waltham ForestLea Bridge
Waltham ForestLeyton
Waltham ForestLeytonstone
Waltham ForestValley
Waltham ForestWood Street
WandsworthGraveney
WandsworthLatchmere
WandsworthQueenstown
WandsworthRoehampton
WandsworthShaftesbury
WandsworthSt. Mary's Park
WandsworthTooting
WandsworthWest Putney
WestminsterChurch Street
WestminsterChurchill
WestminsterHarrow Road
WestminsterHyde Park
WestminsterLancaster Gate
WestminsterQueen's Park
WestminsterSt. James's
WestminsterTachbrook
WestminsterVincent Square
WestminsterWarwick
WestminsterWestbourne

 
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Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what long-term funding has been allocated to (a) rural policing, (b) community support officers and (c) neighbourhood police teams. [18666]

Hazel Blears: We have provided £165 million to police authorities from the Rural Policing Fund since 2000–01. The annual provision is £30 million. We are currently considering rolling up a number of specific grants, including the Rural Policing Fund, into a single pot for each authority, to give police authorities greater financial flexibility. There are no plans to reduce the current level of funding for each authority.

The Neighbourhood Policing Fund will provide £88 million in 2006–07 and £340 million in 2007–08. In addition, we will continue to support the costs of community support officers (CSOs) recruited in the first three rounds from 2002 onwards. The grant will assist the police service to reach our target of 24,000 CSOs by 2008 and will support police authorities in building their own Neighbourhood Policing Teams.

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there were as of 1 April 2005 in each police force in England and Wales; and what the percentage at each rank was of the total establishment. [23933]

Hazel Blears: The breakdown of Police Service strength for 31 March 2005 was published on 25 July 2005 and is available in the Library and on www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb1205.pdf.
 
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Mrs. Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government is taking to improve (a) community engagement and (b) neighbourhood policing in Bedfordshire; and if he will make a statement. [24367]

Hazel Blears: The Government is committed to every area in England and Wales benefiting from dedicated, visible, accessible and responsive neighbourhood policing teams by 2008. A key aim of these teams will be to build more effective engagement with the public.

To support this, the Home Office and the Association of Police Authorities convened the National Practitioner Panel for Community Engagement in Policing. The panel has created a Guide to Community Engagement which is a resource for all policing practitioners, and which contains both practical and strategic advice for practitioners who want to develop or improve their approach to engagement. The guide is supported by a database of case studies which showcases recent and ongoing work around the country, and encourages policing practitioners to network with, and learn from, their peers.

The Government is working closely with the police service to develop neighbourhood policing, initially within pathfinder areas in every force. In Bedfordshire, this is Luton Division.

Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide additional financial and other support to the Northamptonshire police. [24190]

Hazel Blears [holding answer 1 November 2005]: Northamptonshire received an excellent grant settlement this year. General grants increased by 5.5 per cent. to £67.8 million, significantly higher than the 3.75 per cent. minimum increase guaranteed to all police authorities. The force has also received around £7.5 million for specific grants for initiatives such as the crime fighting fund, which has helped maintain the record number of police officers, and for capital.

Details of the provisional police funding settlement for 2006–07, and for 2007–08 as part of the move towards three-year settlements, will be announced in late November/early December.

The police standards unit have been working with Northamptonshire police since spring 2004 on a number of projects to help improve performance and the force has been provided with just under £1 million to support this work.


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