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Reference:
2018/3087
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Question by:
Peter Whittle
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Meeting date:
22 November 2018
According to Chief Constable Sarah Thornton, Head of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), investigating hate crime risks distracting police from their core role of handling emergencies, solving violent crime, burglaries and neighbourhood policing*. Is she correct in this assumption and will this result in fewer Metropolitan Police officers sitting at computer terminals and policing London's streets instead? *[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/31/investigating-hate-crimeris…