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PRESS RELEASE FROM NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE FEDERATION RE RIOTS
Posted on 09/08/2011
“Our thoughts are with our colleagues dealing with this disgusting anarchic criminality and with those emergency workers injured & the public victims of this anarchic criminality. It has to stop.
We support the actions North Yorkshire Police have taken thus far in supporting the national situation and also in maintaining a safe environment in North Yorkshire. We will continue to work with the senior managers of the force in this regard.
We hope the officers from North Yorkshire who have been sent to assist colleagues in London stay safe and return soon.
We believe that it is too early to be analysing potential causes of the riots. But it is evident we will need a Scarman type report for the riots AND a Royal Commission on Policing.
We would urge members of the public to lobby their MPs and members of the Police Authority to ask the Home Secretary to commit to an independent enquiry into the causes of the riots AND a Royal Commission on Policing to ensure proposed police reforms are properly evaluated so we can ensure this type of thing does not happen again and that there will be sufficient resources to deal with it over the years to come.”
