During a debate on Police Restructuring, Charles Walker asks why the rush?

Mr. Charles Walker (Broxbourne) (Con): Earlier this week Ian Laidlaw-Dickson, the Labour chairman of Hertfordshire police authority, wrote to Hertfordshire Members:

"This authority regrets the undue haste with which it has been asked to make decisions on the future of policing in Hertfordshire. We will not be pushed or bribed into making snap decisions."

We in Hertfordshire want to know what the rush is. Are we going into something that we shall regret at our leisure?

David Davis: Almost certainly, if the Home Secretary proceeds as he intends. My hon. Friend has raised another point, however. The words of a Labour chairman have had the interesting effect of uniting Conservative, Labour and Liberal police authority chairmen up and down the country against the haste, the method and the approach that are proposed.

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