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Police & Crime Commissioner calls on Milton Keynes City Council to support CCTV Partnership

Earlier this month the Thames Valley CCTV Partnership went live, with the first control room in Milton Keynes. Building on the previous partnerships between local authorities and the police the vision of the new system being championed by Police & Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber is to have a sustainable CCTV system to detect and deter crime and keep the public safe. Already the increase in CCTV operators has seen the police able to intervene in serious crimes as they are being committed.

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Action on spiking

Ahead of a government announcement on modernising spiking laws this week, on Friday, 15 December, Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber, and Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Jason Hogg, welcomed Home Secretary, the Rt Hon James Cleverly MP, and Laura Farris MP, Minister for Victims and Safeguarding, to Windsor to discuss the work Thames Valley Police is doing to tackle violence against women and girls

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