Nick Brown MP

The Evening Chronicle has today published details of a report which shows that Northumbria police force is the second worst hit nationally by spending cuts as a percentage of total funding. Newcastle East MP Nick Brown said: “What the report shows is that the big Labour urban areas are taking a much bigger hit than the [...]

At Nick’s constituency surgeries at the weekends, one issue that is raised over and over again is Anti Social Behaviour. When people are causing trouble in their area it has the potential to make the lives of the majority of law-abiding citizens a misery. People in East Newcastle rightly want to live in neighbourhoods free [...]

The Policing and Crime Bill going through Parliament contains tough new measures to stop gang related crime. Successful existing solutions such as Anti-Social Behaviour Orders have had a real influence – 65% of offenders stopped behaving anti-socially after the first intervention, and 86% after the second. Together with the record numbers of police on our [...]