PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BRANCH, NEW SCOTLAND YARD (18 April 1994)
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That this House commends the commitment and dedication of the personnel in the Obscene Publications Branch at New Scotland Yard; recognises their unique national role and expertise in investigating child pornography and paedophile rings; notes the ever-growing complexity and volume of computer pornography with which the branch deals; and calls upon the Home Secretary to ensure that the Commissioner abandons any plan to close the Obscene Publications Branch and that this specialist squad is assured a continuing and strengthened place in the Metropolitan Police on the conclusion of the current restructuring review.
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Ann Winterton (Conservative)
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