Cleveland Police receives extra £3.2m after fatal A19 crash

Summarised from BBC Tees's report · Updated 26 Oct, 21:14 · Archive

Cleveland Police is to receive £3.2m in additional funding following an August crash on the A19 that killed seven people, including two officers.

A crash on the A19 near Middlesbrough on 22 August killed seven people, including Cleveland Police officers PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38. A Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way down the dual carriageway struck an oncoming marked police car. Five men in the Passat also died: Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jakub Matusiak, 23, Makai Saddington, 18, and 17-year-olds Theo Rae and Cole Robert Worthy.

Policing Minister Sarah Jones announced £3.2m in additional funding to meet Cleveland Police's extra costs. The cash supplements £2m previously pledged in August by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, which Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner Matt Storey said the force was still awaiting. The Home Office said this earlier payment would arrive by the end of November. Labour MP Andy McDonald welcomed the latest funding but called for a long-term solution, asking whether the issue would be resolved through a complete reconfiguration of policing in the country. The crash also prompted a large-scale operation against organised crime, resulting in fifty arrests.

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• Crash deaths police force promised a further £3.2mThe funding is on top of £2m pledged, but not yet paid, to Cleveland Police in August.BBC Tees · 26 Oct, 19:18

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