division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [16th Allotted Day] &#8212; Policing and Crime
motion: <p class="" pid="b.703.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.703.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House opposes the Government&#8217;s cuts leading to over 12,000 fewer police officers across England and Wales; believes that the 20 per cent. cut to central Government funding to the police goes far beyond the assessment of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary of efficiency savings that are possible without affecting frontline services; calls on the Government to withdraw plans for American-style police and crime commissioners for which there will be no checks or balances; and believes that the Government is making it harder for the police to cut crime by weakening the National DNA Database, leading to the loss of 1,000 criminal matches per year; ending anti-social behaviour orders, increasing bureaucracy on CCTV, creating serious loopholes in child protection and failing to develop any cross-Governmental strategy to cut crime.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.744.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put forthwith, </i>That the Question be now put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.744.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">Question agreed  <i>to</i> .</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.744.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Main Question accordingly put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.744.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.744.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 206, Noes 304.</p>