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Convicted rapists are not currently flagged in police vetting procedures, Labour MP Jess Phillips has said. The Birmingham Yardley MP told the Commons: “To say that we are doing everything possible in flagging intelligence is just not true. “Currently if you are found to have raped your wife or raped one of your children or abused your children, in a family court in this country, found by a British court, no police force in the country would be entitled to have that information when they were doing the vetting. “Will he commit today that that will all be completely and utterly available and that is somebody found to have raped or have child abused in a British court, that when they want to become a police officer or a social worker, that that information will be available.” Home Secretary James Cleverly replied: “(Ms Phillips) raises an incredibly important point about making sure that where there have been offences that they are taken into consideration with regard to the vetting and that is part of the set of reforms that we will be looking at driving through. “She makes the point about numbers of officers and budgets, and I’m not convinced that that is necessarily the most useful metric of the seriousness with which we take things. He added: “Without a fundamental shift in philosophy, without a fundamental shift in attitude (increased funding) will not have the effect that she and I both desire.” #saraheverard #waynecouzens #labour #tory #conservative #conservatives #police #crime #uknews #ukpolitics
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