HC Deb 28 November 2002 vol 395 c418W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for how long the Child Rescue Alert programme will be piloted in Sussex; and what plans there are to extend this scheme to the rest of the UK. [83221]

Hilary Benn

Child Rescue Sussex Police was launched on 14 November and will run for six months.

It is a pilot project sponsored by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), and it will be for them to evaluate it and determine the value of extending this scheme. We await with interest the outcome of the evaluation.

I understand that ACPO's Homicide Working Group will consider a report on the project in April, which will include recommendations about whether to extend the scheme.