Starmer pledges 3,000 new neighbourhood police officers

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Sir Keir Starmer has said there will be 3,000 new neighbourhood police officers “by the start of next year." Report by Chahalb. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Now last year we announced an extra billion pound in funding including an additional 200 million

00:05specifically on neighborhood policing and we're introducing tough new respect orders to crack

00:12down on anti-social behavior because I want you to have the tools that you need to do the job that

00:18we ask you to do and with our neighborhood policing guarantee we'll deliver 13,000 new

00:24neighborhood officers by 2029 and today I can announce the first step 3,000 new neighborhood

00:33officers by the start of next year all of them visible on the beat and serving their communities

00:42not stuck behind a desk or taken away to plug shortages from elsewhere and from this July so

00:49just a few months time every neighborhood will have a named contactable officer they'll have

00:55guaranteed police patrols in town centers and hot spots particularly at peak times like Friday

01:01and Saturday nights and people will be able to go online and measure how their local neighborhood

01:07team is performing there'll be a range of way for local residents and businesses to raise their

01:13concerns and to demand change from their neighborhood policing team

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