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For months Nick has been warning about Labour’s plans to abolish Suffolk Constabulary.
In May he first raised this with Suffolk police officers. In June, his parliamentary questions to the Government (here and here) exposed what ministers intended to do as part of their plan to impose a Mayor on Norfolk and Suffolk together.
And in July, he told the local and national media that he vehemently opposed any merger between Norfolk and Suffolk’s dedicated police forces because it would take decision-making and accountability even further away from where people live.
On Thursday 13 November 2025, he gave the Policing Minister the chance to confirm there will be no merger between Suffolk and Norfolk police – see the video above. The fact that she refused to rule it out tells its own story.
Now his warnings are coming to pass. The Times reports that the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is considering reducing England and Wales’s 43 police forces to as few as 12 regional mega-forces.
Under these proposals, Suffolk and Norfolk Constabularies would be merged. The Government wants a single Mayoralty for both counties overseeing policing as part of a single police force. Our dedicated, Suffolk force would be swallowed into a distant bureaucratic structure supposedly in the name of efficiency. Efficiency would not follow, but accountability would suffer.
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