Category: Media
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Vera Baird speaks of commitment to stamping out Modern Day Slavery
Police arrest a man in connection with Modern Day Slavery in Blyth. The arrest follows an on-going investigation by the Blyth Neighbourhood Policing Team into reports of people working without payment and living in squalor in private accommodation in the town. On Tuesday, March 15, a 44-year-old man was arrested for assault and Modern Day…
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“PAY UP” says Police & Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird QC.
Northumbria’s Police & Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird has insisted that Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne must pay back over £1 million pound to Northumbria Police. Mr Osborne has been reprimanded by an official statistics watchdog – after he cut police funding for Northumbria despite promising not to. The Tories also used the council tax precept by…
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Think Twice!
The plea follows an increase in the number of reports received by police in Sunderland and South Tyneside about teenagers and young people posting images of themselves on social network sites of a sexually explicit nature. Officers are asking youngsters to think carefully about the content they post online and are reminding them that these…
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PCC Vera Baird – delighted Wildlife Crime Unit has been saved from closure
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird has expressed delight at news that the UK’s specialist unit for wildlife law enforcement will continue, following a successful national campaign to prevent its closure. It was feared that The Wildlife Crime Unit, which tackles wildlife crime would be forced to close at the end of March due…
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Protecting our Emergency Services
Northumbria Police and our Fire Services work closely together and have developed great partnership working and I am keen to see this continue. I don\’t believe that the Fire Service should come under the control of Police & Crime Commissioners, but I do believe the government has a duty to ensure all of our emergency…
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PCC Vera Baird says In Northumbria sex abuse complainants will be believed as all other complainants are
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird, is in complete disagreement with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan Howe who has suggested that police should not believe sex abuse complainants, in contrast to the way every other complainant is dealt with. He has said: \”There is a grave danger at the moment with…
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David Cameron a man of many words and little action
David Cameron has today said that prison reform has been a “scandalous failure” for years and has pledged to make it the “great progressive cause” of politics. Ironically, the Prime Minister has expressed the same concerns nearly a decade ago when in 2007 he said that prison reform was one of the key planks of…
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Keeping cops on the beat.
The Police and Crime Panel for Northumbria have unanimously approved the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner’s proposed increase to the police precept (the police element of the council tax) of 10p per week for a band D property. The Chief Constable confirms that this figure which is £5 per year will enable him to retain…
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Vera Baird urges Home Secretary to take action.
Following news that American blogger Daryush Valizadeh known as Roosh V has organised rallies in various cities across the world this weekend, including Newcastle, Northumbria’s Police & Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird QC, has written to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, urging her to ban Roosh V from entering the United Kingdom. Valizadeh is urging…