Member

I am most grateful for the time that Jo Grimshaw of Surrey Police, its head of anti-social behaviour, partnerships, youth engagement and tactical lead for serious violence, has spent with me explaining the holistic way in which she and her team tackle anti-social behaviour countywide and across multiple agencies, steered by deep specialists, all of whom, very importantly, are non-serving police officers; many of them are ex-police officers. The advantage of not being a serving police officer is that you can stay in role for years at a time. You will not be moved around, so you can develop profound and very deep expertise and knowledge. I know that Andy Prophet, the chief constable of Hertfordshire and the NPCC lead on anti-social behaviour, who the Minister may well know, is extremely keen, like other leaders, to work across all 43 police forces to identify and syndicate best practice. I think the Government would find that those people would be very supportive of the intent behind these amendments.