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Police

In fact, I have noticed that my constituents make fewer complaints about how the police respond when telephoned. Moreover, officers less often say, ““My hands are tied””—I think that that sentence should be banned, because it means that someone else should get the blame—when contacted by the public. I agree that we must make sure that the police should respond appropriately to people, although that might require us to educate citizens about how they should go about contacting the police. Slough’s neighbourhood policing presence is under threat—not from the Home Office, but from the Metropolitan Police Service. Slough is in the CDRP family that includes Brent, Ealing, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Islington—