Julie Cooper – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the effect of changes to the policing budget on the number of police negotiators in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.

Mike Penning

The Home Secretary has not made any such estimates. It is a matter for Chief Constables, working with their Police and Crime Commissioners to determine the levels of any particular specialist resources required in their forces, and how these should be deployed.