Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary

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Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary

The Government is putting women's safety at risk

For the police officers I shadowed earlier this summer, the 999 call was not unusual. A frightened young woman with bruises from her boyfriend had plucked up the courage to call the police. The officers told me domestic violence is a serious and frequent cause of emergency calls in their area. Because while much progress has been made tackling violence against women over the past few decades, too many women still suffer dreadful abuse.

25 November 2011 11:26 AM

Yvette Cooper: Now is not the time to cut and weaken the police

From Blackberry messenger to moral malaise; pundits, politicians and public alike are still wrestling to explain those awful August nights. The Home Secretary was right to say yesterday more analysis is needed on the riots' causes, but there are some early lessons she should draw, and policies she must change before it is too late.

For a start, the police spending review must be re-opened. Labour has long argued 20 per cent policing cuts go too far. Losing 16,000 officers has always been a mistake. But the riots raise additional concerns.

09 September 2011 11:02 AM

Boris must come clean on police cuts in London

Wide is the gap between the photo-ops from the Mayor and the figures released by the Metropolitan Police in the past two weeks. While the shock-headed Mayor and the shocked drug dealer he raided made a great media event, the real prospects for crime and policing in our capital are troubling.

16 June 2011 11:19 AM

Theresa May must put public safety before politics

The horrific scenes at Domodedovo airport in Moscow bring home again the damage terrorists can wreak, and the dangers that police and security services fight each day.

25 January 2011 10:40 AM