‘There aren’t enough police on the street in London’: Does the Met have a community presence?

We ask Londoners whether or not they think the Met have a presence in London communities.

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00:00I would say that there's probably not enough police on the street in London,

00:04especially at this time of year when there's tourists coming from all over the place.

00:08But the Met, I don't really know, don't really think that much of them.

00:14I guess there are areas where they could be, you know, and I think it is areas, isn't it,

00:20that could probably do with a more visible thing.

00:25But hey, how do you do that when there's not enough to go around?

00:29There's supposed to be 13,000 extra police officers in the street in the UK.

00:34Is that a commitment that Labour have made?

00:36Is that a particular pledge that you'd like to see them kind of follow up on?

00:39Yeah, I think that would be good.

00:40The crime rates in London are really, really high.

00:42So hopefully that will put a stop to them.

00:44Oh, it's so difficult.

00:46I mean, obviously, if I had an incident or something like that,

00:50yes, I want that as my priority, isn't it?

00:52But it's, you know, there are so many priorities now.

00:56You can't just choose five.