Minister for police’s purse stolen – at policing conference

Diana Johnson. Warwickshire police said ‘a man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and has since been released on bail while inquiries continue’. Photograph: Zuma Press, Inc/Alamy

The minister for policing and crime prevention has had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers.

Diana Johnson was in Warwickshire on Tuesday to give a speech to the Police Superintendents’ Association, in which she said towns and cities were being “gripped by an epidemic of antisocial behaviour, theft and shoplifting”.