THE MP for West Devon and Torridge Geoffrey Cox spent time with Devon and Cornwall Police Officers recently, to learn more about current issues affecting the force working in a rural area such as West Devon and to discuss the changes affecting the police brought in by the coalition government.

Geoffrey met around twenty local response officers, sergeants, neighbourhood beat officers and other team specialists based in Tavistock and surrounding villages alongside Sector Inspector for Torridge and West Devon Inspector Shaun Kenneally at Okehampton Police station recently.

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