Police In Barnet

EDM number 1195 in 2001-02, proposed by Andrew Dismore on 24/04/2002.

That this House congratulates Barnet Borough Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Sue Akers and her officers on the success of Operation Trafalgar involving 70 Barnet officers in a targeted police operation resulting in 178 arrests, 225 crimes cleared up, recovery of firearms, knives and drugs and a three per cent. reduction in burglary; welcomes the extra allocation of 50 police officers to Barnet; condemns the Conservative members of the Greater London Authority, including the Member for Barnet and Camden, who despite their protestations on crime, for a second year running proposed and voted for an alternative Metropolitan Police budget which would have resulted in reductions in funding for London's police, resulting in serious cuts; welcomes the fact that the Metropolitan Police training centre at Hendon is bursting at the seams with new recruits; and looks forward to continuing improvements in police officer numbers with the Labour-led Metropolitan Police Authority.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.