Every MP will be contacted today by a chief constable to ask them about any more security arrangements they may require as part of a review into MPs’ safety, Sky News understands.
It is believed that by the end of the day, all parliamentarians will have been contacted by their respective police chiefs to ask them about security measures and that the police forces will then report back to Home Secretary Priti Patel this weekend.
The review is being conducted as part of Operation Bridger – a nationwide police protective security operation to enhance the security of members of parliament that began after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016.
Following the launch of the operation five years ago, many MPs were given fobs that connect them to emergency services and panic alarms that they could place in their homes and offices.
On Friday, Ms Patel confirmed she had asked all police forces to immediately review security arrangements for MPs after the death of Sir David Amess.
Following the killing of Sir David at his constituency surgery in Essex on yesterday afternoon, Ms Patel chaired a meeting of police, security and intelligence agencies and also spoke to House of Commons’ Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
“The home secretary has asked all police forces to review security arrangements for MPs with immediate effect and will provide updates in due course,” a spokesman for Ms Patel said on Friday.
It is understand that the home secretary would like to see security for MPs across the country become more standardised and uniform as currently there is a variation in the level of security various members decide to take out.
At present, most backbench MPs will not have the police protection offered to senior ministers.
Sir David died after being stabbed at a surgery – where MPs offer face-to-face meetings with constituents – in his Southend West constituency in…
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