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Policing and Crime Bill

This is not an area of which I have enormous knowledge. There are Members present in the Committee who have much more. However, in my ignorance, I would have thought that the police had systems for protecting people who were in danger and that it did not require a new law, an injunction and a court process to prove something beyond reasonable doubt. I understand that witnesses are protected and I assume that the police will see it as part of their duty to protect people who they know from information are in danger. Therefore, I ask the Minister again to reflect on how necessary this extremely strange provision is.