4 January 2010
Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling, met with members of Thames Valley Police Force on Monday along with Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West Alok Sharma, and Reading East MP, Rob Wilson.
Alok and Rob were keen to talk to the Shadow Home Secretary about local residents' concerns including anti-social behaviour, burglary and low-level drug dealing. Chris Grayling told Alok and Rob that he believes anti-social behaviour is the “Number 1 issue in terms of law and order in virtually every community up and down the country”. When quizzed about what plans the Conservatives have to deal with theses issues the Shadow Home Secretary said that if he became Home Secretary he would get more Police “out of Police Stations and onto the Street” instead of dealing with “unnecessary bureaucracy.”
Additionally, Chris Grayling wants to equip the Police with “more immediate powers to deal with anti-social behaviour.” For example, simple powers to deal with troublesome teenagers to allow punishment on the spot and a tougher regime on binge drinking, including licensing controls so that we can “finally get to grips with the strains and pressures of binge drinking.”
Alok said: "I know from speaking to residents across the Reading West constituency just how important tackling crime and anti-social behaviour is to many of them and it was great to have Chris here in Reading today to hear how a Conservative Government would deal with these problems." Rob added: "Crime, anti-social behaviour and binge drinking are all issues that are high on my constituents priority list, so I’m pleased that Chris has seen for himself the problems we face in Reading. We can't go on as we are and I'm pleased to say they won't if Chris is Home Secretary."
Chris Grayling was also on hand to support Alok and Rob in unveiling a new Conservative poster situated along the Oxford Road. The poster is part of the Conservative’s new nationwide campaign as a result of David Cameron launching the Party’s health section of their draft manifesto.
The poster in Reading is 1 of 1,000 sites across the UK which features a picture of David Cameron alongside the wording ‘We can’t go on like this. I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS’.
The health section of the Party’s draft manifesto explains how a Conservative government would create an NHS based around the needs of patients and run according to the clinical judgements of healthcare professionals, not the preferences of politicians, with a greater focus on improving the nation's public health. It also confirms the party’s commitment to protecting NHS spending in real terms.
Alok and Rob were keen to talk to the Shadow Home Secretary about local residents' concerns including anti-social behaviour, burglary and low-level drug dealing. Chris Grayling told Alok and Rob that he believes anti-social behaviour is the “Number 1 issue in terms of law and order in virtually every community up and down the country”. When quizzed about what plans the Conservatives have to deal with theses issues the Shadow Home Secretary said that if he became Home Secretary he would get more Police “out of Police Stations and onto the Street” instead of dealing with “unnecessary bureaucracy.”
Additionally, Chris Grayling wants to equip the Police with “more immediate powers to deal with anti-social behaviour.” For example, simple powers to deal with troublesome teenagers to allow punishment on the spot and a tougher regime on binge drinking, including licensing controls so that we can “finally get to grips with the strains and pressures of binge drinking.”
Alok said: "I know from speaking to residents across the Reading West constituency just how important tackling crime and anti-social behaviour is to many of them and it was great to have Chris here in Reading today to hear how a Conservative Government would deal with these problems." Rob added: "Crime, anti-social behaviour and binge drinking are all issues that are high on my constituents priority list, so I’m pleased that Chris has seen for himself the problems we face in Reading. We can't go on as we are and I'm pleased to say they won't if Chris is Home Secretary."
Chris Grayling was also on hand to support Alok and Rob in unveiling a new Conservative poster situated along the Oxford Road. The poster is part of the Conservative’s new nationwide campaign as a result of David Cameron launching the Party’s health section of their draft manifesto.
The poster in Reading is 1 of 1,000 sites across the UK which features a picture of David Cameron alongside the wording ‘We can’t go on like this. I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS’.
The health section of the Party’s draft manifesto explains how a Conservative government would create an NHS based around the needs of patients and run according to the clinical judgements of healthcare professionals, not the preferences of politicians, with a greater focus on improving the nation's public health. It also confirms the party’s commitment to protecting NHS spending in real terms.
