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[email protected] 735 12 SEPTEMBER 2011 736 Rachel Reeves: With savage cuts to West Yorkshire House of Commons police, including 750 fewer police officers and up to 1,500 fewer support staff, how does the Home Secretary Monday 12 September 2011 think that tackling burglary in Leeds will be improved over the next few years? The House met at half-past Two o’clock Mrs May: In relation to policing, we are ensuring not only that police have the tools and powers that they need to deal with issues out on the street, but that they PRAYERS are freed up from a lot of the bureaucracy that was introduced by the previous Government, which kept [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] too many police officers behind desks and not out on the streets. Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (Con): Will my Oral Answers to Questions right hon. Friend assure me that she will not be seduced by the argument that, inevitably, more police officers means more visibility? The fact remains that there are more police on patrol on Monday morning than on HOME DEPARTMENT Friday night, and that only 12% of officers are available at any one time to be visible to the British public.