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Fighting Crime (Public Engagement)

I am persuaded that in order to get the accountability we need one figure as police commissioner—I am not saying that there are not other arguments or analyses. Without that, even if we have elections to the police authority, they will probably end up not engaging the public imagination, and it is likely that people will carry on not knowing who their elected police commissioners are. It is clear that the hon. Gentleman feels powerfully that minorities will not be represented. We in this Chamber represent varied areas with, in some cases, large ethnic minorities, and we seek to represent all those people. I have never heard that our form of representation is seen to be failing. I do not understand quite why the hon. Gentleman feels the way he does.