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Police Officers (Paperwork)

Volume 400: debated on Monday 24 February 2003

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16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to reduce the paperwork of police officers. [98773]

We have set up a steering group, co-chaired by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office, to take forward the recommendations of Sir David O'Dowd's Bureaucracy Taskforce, whose report was published last September. Amongst the achievements so far, the necessary provisions to introduce street bail are in the criminal justice bill; the Metropolitan Police Service has made 306 forms obsolete and we hope that the Custody and Case Preparation applications will be rolled out to all forces by April 2006.