Tackling Crime

Today, alongside other Lincolnshire MPs, Victoria met Marc Jones, our Police and Crime Commissioner and Paul Gibson our Chief Constable to continue our collaborative work pressing for fairer funding for Lincolnshire.

I welcome the news that Lincolnshire has been awarded £396,945.82 from the latest round of the Safer Street Fund.

A year ago I launched the codeword scheme "Ask For ANI".

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill passed through the UK House of Commons yesterday, delivering on our promises to take measures to make our society safer and to crack down on crime.

The aim of the Safer Streets Fund is to stop offenses that blight communities and cause untold suffering to victims from happening in the first place.  Grants of up to £550,000, have been awarded following a bidding process and will be provided to PCCs in England and Wales for p

THE DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL HAS PASSED!!! After 3 years of scrutiny, debate and hard work, this landmark Bill will become law, helping millions of victims.

Yesterday, I visited Boots to launch our new 'Ask for Ani' scheme. Victims of domestic abuse will be able to access support at Boots and 257 independent pharmacies across the UK.

Domestic abuse has no place in our society.

Home should be a place of safety and of love, but for 2 million people it is not.

Victoria Atkins, Member of Parliament for Louth & Horncastle and Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, last week introduced landmark legislation to transform the legal response to Domestic Abuse. The Domestic Abuse bill, published in draft in January 2019, has since undergone inte