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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

There may be times when the police need to attend an incident to verify, as I have just discussed, whether a crime has or has not been committed. If they visit and conclude that the police should never have been involved in the first place, there is still no need to record a suspect’s name. The police need to be advised that, where their judgment is that there is no criminal offence or any other police matter, then they do not need to visit the person who is said to have caused the insult that has been alleged.

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