Best quotes by Theresa May on Police

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• ‟ Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly.

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• ‟ I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.

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• ‟ Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do.

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• ‟ Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.

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• ‟ Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

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• ‟ The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.

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• ‟ Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

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• ‟ And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

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• ‟ We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

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• ‟ What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

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• ‟ We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

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• ‟ People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.

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• ‟ Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.

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• ‟ I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

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• ‟ If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

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