Ms Cooper is also expected to announce a “neighbourhood police guarantee” within weeks, as well as more funding, amid concerns from police chiefs that they could be left short-changed by the cost of higher employer national insurance contributions and a 4.75 per cent pay rise for the police. officers.
It is thought that around £50 million went to the Metropolitan Policewhich will receive a total of £3.5 billion in 2024-25, an increase of 3.5 per cent.
However, the extra money is unlikely to plug the hole in the Met’s finances. It is clear that over the next two years the strength is in short supply up to £350 million.
Ms Cooper will say the Government will provide an additional 13,000 community police officers and PCSOs and work with the College of Policing to support the rollout of a new specialist training program for community policing.
In an article for The Telegraph, Emily Spurrell, chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said the force must do more to prevent crime. She said Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) were key to achieving this by bringing different agencies together with the police.
“As PCCs we have the necessary relationships and marshaling power to coordinate and deliver effective local services to prevent crime, rehabilitate offenders and, most importantly, support victims,” she said.
We have to do things differently
By Emily Spurrell, President of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners