Philp: Police numbers falling under Labour

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp defended the Conservatives’ record on tackling violence against women and girls, citing increased police numbers, Operation Soteria and £500 million in funding, while accusing Labour of cutting officer numbers and failing to invest meaningfully in the area.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The last government delivered record ever police numbers. It had Operation Soteria designed to

00:04increase the rape prosecution rate and by the time we left office those numbers were still too low

00:09but they were increasing. The numbers were going up and half a billion pounds was spent over the

00:15last two or three years of the last government on domestic abuse and violence against women and

00:19girls. So the resources were put in. Unfortunately under Labour we're now seeing police officer

00:24numbers go down and we're not seeing any extra money being put into this area in any meaningful

00:29way.

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