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Sadiq Khan says ‘huge progress’ made on Met Police funding
Evening Standard
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1/15/2025
Sadiq Khan says ‘huge progress’ made on Met Police funding
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I've said for the last eight and a half years, I believe in being tough on crime, that's
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why I funded 1,300 officers, funded 500 PCSOs, doubled the funding the police received, got
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neighbourhood teams, but also tough on the causes of crime, investing in youth workers,
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youth clubs, mentoring and so forth. It's really important to do both. We need to make
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sure we support the police, that's why I was really pleased we got additional money from
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the government, an increase of more than 34%. Still want to give the government more
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money for next year, but the Met Police Service knows, as do Londoners, since I've been there,
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we've more than doubled funding to the police, I'm going to carry on supporting the police.
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It sounds like you're hopeful then of possibly reducing those cuts to some extent?
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Oh look, what Samar set out a number of months ago was the consequences on the current trajectory.
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The good news is there's been huge progress made since then, and over the course of the
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next few weeks we're working closely with the Met Police Service, with my team at City
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Hall, with the Home Office, to make sure we can support the police as much as we can financially,
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but also work with the police to lobby the government in advance of the spending review
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next year, oh this year, very partly.
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