Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any steps they are taking to (i) address the root causes of; and (ii) use a prevention based approach to address, violence against women and girls. First Minister and deputy First Minister: The Ending Violence Against Women and Girls … Continue reading AQW 48870/22-27 – Addressing violence against women and girls
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any steps her Department is taking to tackle the operations of trafficking gangs, in Northern Ireland. Minister of Justice: On 10 July 2024 I published the Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Strategy 2024-2027 structured under the three pillars of Pursue, Protect and … Continue reading AQW 48359/22-27 – Tackling trafficking gangs
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) any safeguards that are in place to ensure (a) lawful; and (b) proportionate use of live facial recognition technology by the PSNI; and (ii) any data that is collected through the use of live facial recognition technology by the PSNI, including … Continue reading AQW 48227/22-27 – Live facial recognition technology
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any safeguards that exist to reduce the risk of unnecessary (i) arrest; and (ii) restraint, of neurodivergent people during police encounters. Minister of Justice: In general, the powers and procedures in the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (PACE) Codes … Continue reading AQW 47760/22-27 – Police encounters with neurodivergent people
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any assessment that has been made of the adequacy of the resources available to the PSNI to tackle rural crime. Minister of Justice: My Department has not carried out a specific assessment of PSNI resources available to tackle rural crime.The deployment of … Continue reading AQW 47632/22-27 – Rural crime resources
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether any assessment has been made of the adequacy of the resources available to address rural crime. Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: Responsibility for the allocation of operational resources and detection and investigation of rural crime is an … Continue reading AQW 47510/22-27 – Rural crime resources
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of custody images, currently held by the PSNI, of individuals who have not been (i) charged with; and (ii) convicted of a crime. Minister of Justice: The PSNI estimates they have facial images for approximately 92,509 individuals on the Police … Continue reading AQW 46553/22-27 – PSNI custody images
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any steps his Department is taking to reduce livestock crime. Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: Rural crime, particularly the theft of farmed animals, is a direct threat to the livelihood of our farmers and to the … Continue reading AQW 45819/22-27 – Reducing livestock crime
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