14/08/2011 BBC Weekend News


14/08/2011

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Good afternoon. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has defended the

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government's plans to go ahead with police budget cuts amid continuing

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tensions between police chiefs and politicians over how the riots in

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England were handled last week. After the riots, the search for

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answers, as huge numbers of police continue arrests across the country,

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London's police chief has criticised the mixed messages

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politicians were giving them as they tackled the mayhem on the

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streets. There is often inconsistency of feedback in terms

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of our policing of public order. We are sometimes accused of excessive

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force and then accused of not being forceful enough. A David Cameron's

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decision to appoint a former Los Angeles police chief as an adviser

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on gang culture was criticised. Sir Hugh Ward said today, we do not

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need lessons from America. And there was more pressure from within

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Conservative ranks. The case I make to government and will continue to

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make is that numbers matter. Boris Johnson weighed in against his own

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party's plans to cut police funding. But the Home Secretary is standing

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firm. I was clear that the public wanted to see the police taking a

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tough approach. The police have to change their tactics to deal with

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this. And we have been able to see over the last few nights a much

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calmer situation in towns and cities across the country. Where

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you get the Home Secretary saying she has ordered the police to use

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certain things, where the Prime Minister has said he has ordered

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them to do certain things when they have no power to do it, you can

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understand why the police felt frustrated that the politicians

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were trying to take credit for things that the police decided to

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do. Police continue to work long hours processing up to 3000

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suspected rioters in London alone. The sheer scale and cost of the

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clean-up proves that politicians will have to find better ways of

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protecting Britain's streets and paying for it.

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A 26-year-old man and a 17-year-old youth has appeared in court in

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Birmingham this morning, charged with murdering three men in the

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city during last week's riots. Our correspondent is in Birmingham.

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Yes, 26-year-old Joshua Donald and a 17-year-old who we cannot named

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for legal reasons were charged overnight with the murders of the

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three men who were killed after they were hit by a car in the early

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hours of Wednesday morning. A district judge heard these cases in

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very short hearings. The two men appeared separately, only speaking

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from the dock to answer to their names, addresses and ages and

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nodding that they understood the charges. Their applications were

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not used today, and the two were remanded in custody to appear

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before a court tomorrow. Elsewhere, people in Birmingham will be coming

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together in their thousands this afternoon for a peace gathering

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demanding an end to the trouble which has blighted the City this

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week. A British soldier has been killed

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by an explosion in southern Afghanistan. The soldier, from 1st

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Battalion the Rifles, was killed by a bomb while on foot patrol on

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Friday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province. His family has

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been informed. The pro-democracy leader in Burma,

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