{"id":2155,"date":"2018-01-19T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:00:58","slug":"michael-meets-kent-pcc-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"Michael Meets Kent PCC in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael recently met the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Scott,\u00a0in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The pair reviewed Mr Scott\u2019s recent funding proposals for Kent Police and issues affecting Michael\u2019s constituency casework.\u00a0 The local MP was also happy to hear about the good progress of the new Police Constables in Sevenoaks, whom he had inspected during their Passing Out Parade last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2157\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Discussing-key-issues-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Discussing key issues\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Michael pressed Mr Scott to roll out a more effective speed prevention system in villages such as Otford and Brasted.\u00a0 He welcomed the introduction of TruCam \u2013 a smart speedwatch system that administers on-the-spot fines to repeat offenders \u2013 but called for more immediate action.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: \u201cKent Police is getting the funding to increase the number of officers patrolling our streets.\u00a0 But speeding remains a menace.\u00a0 So it\u2019s important that some of this money is put towards rolling out more effective tools for stopping speeders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael recently met the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Scott,\u00a0in Parliament. The pair reviewed Mr Scott\u2019s recent funding proposals for Kent Police and issues affecting Michael\u2019s constituency casework.\u00a0 The local MP was also happy to hear about the good progress of the new Police Constables in Sevenoaks, whom he had inspected during their Passing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Meets Kent PCC in Parliament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[40,727,634,666,497,96,643,746,636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}