Luciana Berger

Luciana with Yvette Cooper, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary

Today I have published my report from the public meeting held in February to discuss policing in the area and how the government’s cuts will affect community safety.  The meeting was extremely well attended and local residents were given the opportunity to ask questions and put forward ideas [...]

Police Car – courtesy of local photographer Jon-999

Like a police chase that never ends, I wrote last week about the expected loss of 800 police officers, only for the details to emerge first here and then here that the Government has actually imposed not £53m, but £66m worth of cuts locally.

In the words of the Merseyside Police Authority [...]

Police car (courtesy of local photographer Jon-999)

During the General Election, I made tackling anti-social behaviour one of my priorities.

Today we learn that the anti-social behavour team within Merseyside Police is to be abolished as part of their programme of cutting 800 police officers in addition to 1,000 civilian staff members.

The Policing Minister Nick Herbert has [...]

Police car (courtesy of local photographer Jon-999)

I am disappointed to read in today’s Liverpool Daily Post an article about how Merseyside Police are being threatened by bigger cuts than elsewhere in the country.

Research by the Labour Party also shows that there is a risk of Merseyside losing 629 police officers because of the cuts announced [...]