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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

I shall follow your instruction, Madam Deputy Speaker, and draw a veil over the matter. Because I was asked directly about policing, it is probably in order to say that I agree that part of the solution that people want is a reasonable level of policing across the countryside. However, people are not unrealistic about that matter, and they do not expect a policemen to be within a couple of minutes of every isolated farmhouse, which is why we must accept that increased policing is not the whole solution. If we are treating the Bill seriously, it is probably not a complete answer to say that we should not worry because we have got more police, and I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Flello) probably agrees with that point.