Former prime minister Boris Johnson promised to hire 20,000 extra police officers by March 2023 The Government is set to fall short of the flagship 2019 manifesto pledge, theipaper can reveal 🔎 SteveRobson04 reports 🧵
by March 2023 in an attempt to reverse a decade of austerity cuts made by his Conservative predecessors.said an extra 1,420 officers had been added to forces in England and Wales in the past three months and that the Government is “well on the way” to hitting its target. It brings the current total number of officers added under the PUP scheme to more than 16,700.
Steve Hartshorn, national chair of the Police Federation, said the figures are evidence that “target culture in policing doesn’t work” and that the uplift programme has “placed pressure on forces to get people through the door fast to meet the deadline, so the funding they so desperately need isn’t taken away from them.”
The Home Office insists police forces are “on track” to hit the 20,000 target and that vetting procedures are being made “stricter and clearer” following recent concerns. While missing the 20,000 target would be politically embarrassing for the Government, it would also leave police forces facing funding blackholes as a result.
It has recruited 98 officers so far and has a target of 164 to reach. It has recruited 8.47 officers a month, on average, and based on this could expect to reach a total of 122 officers by the end of March. “Wiltshire Police, and my own office, is acutely aware of the government’s uplift target – it is essential for securing much-needed funding and vital for Wiltshire’s communities who have a right to their fair share of police officers to keep them safe. We do not want to be in a position where funding is withheld so I am pleased remedial steps have been taken early to avoid this.
“We are doing everything we can to reach our required number of 1,189 serving officers by the end of March and took positive action to add an additional training intake in February, when the number of officers leaving or retiring from the Force was higher than expected towards the end of last year.”
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