Labour will point to the latest ONS statistics, which showed 1.1 million incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported to the police in the year to September 2022
Labour will push the government for an increase to the number of neighbourhood police officers on Tuesday, saying communities are facing 3,000 incidents of anti-social behaviour a day.
In an opposition day debate in the Commons, the party will point to the latest crime statistics from the ONS, which showed 1.1 million incidents of anti-social behaviour had been reported to theShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper will accuse the government of failing to invest in neighbourhood policing teams, saying it has"left communities to fight crime and anti-social behaviour on their own".
And she will call on ministers to increase local police numbers, including ringfencing a proportion of the Police Uplift Programme - the government plan to recruit 20,000 more officers by March - for neighbourhood teams.shows 15,343 have been recruited so far, with two months to go to reach the target.
And the Home Office said £120m had been spent on initiatives such as improving street lighting and home security to cut neighbourhood crime as part of its Safer Streets Fund., 6,000 neighbourhood police officers have been cut since 2015, and the number of Police Community Support Officers dropped by more than 8,500 since 2010.Advertisement
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