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07/11/2011
Home Secretary Summoned By Riots' Committee
As arrests over the August rioting in London tops the 3,000 mark, it has emerged that the Home Secretary Theresa May is to give evidence before an influential group of MPs as they probe the policing of large scale disorder.
The influential Police Oracle website reported today that members of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee will quiz the senior minister as well as other witnesses at the hearing in Westminster tomorrow.
The Committee has been probing the law enforcement response to the rioting across England in early August that began in London and spread across many GB cities, such as Liverpool and Birmingham.
Their investigation has so far focused on how forces rose to the challenge of dealing with disorder as well as the type of offenders involved in the and sentencing issues.
As well as the Home Secretary, witnesses at the forthcoming session are to include Charles Perryman, Chair of South Yorkshire Police Authority and the London police's temporary Assistant Chief Constable, Bob Sanderson.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and respected former US police chief Bill Bratton have already been giving evidence to the influential committee.
(BMcC)
The influential Police Oracle website reported today that members of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee will quiz the senior minister as well as other witnesses at the hearing in Westminster tomorrow.
The Committee has been probing the law enforcement response to the rioting across England in early August that began in London and spread across many GB cities, such as Liverpool and Birmingham.
Their investigation has so far focused on how forces rose to the challenge of dealing with disorder as well as the type of offenders involved in the and sentencing issues.
As well as the Home Secretary, witnesses at the forthcoming session are to include Charles Perryman, Chair of South Yorkshire Police Authority and the London police's temporary Assistant Chief Constable, Bob Sanderson.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and respected former US police chief Bill Bratton have already been giving evidence to the influential committee.
(BMcC)
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