THE Labour Party has outlined an \u00a3800 million plan to protect neighbourhood policing and safeguard the jobs of 10,000 police officers over the next three years.<\/p>\n
This is one of a number of policing promises that have been made in the run-up to the 7 May General Election.<\/p>\n
Click\u00a0here<\/a>\/see below for all the main political parties\u2019 policing pledges.<\/p>\n The \u201cefficiency savings\u201d, the Labour Party said, are to be funded by scrapping Police and Crime Commissioners, ending the subsidy of the gun licensing system and by making police forces share back-office and procurement services.<\/p>\n Labour\u2019s crime and justice manifesto said the party will create a victims\u2019 law, ban the sale of \u201clegal highs\u201d from the streets and establish a new commissioner to tackle sexual and domestic violence.<\/p>\n The party\u2019s manifesto says that a Labour government would legislate to introduce a new \u201clocal policing commitment\u201d, which would guarantee neighbourhood policing in every area.<\/p>\n The Association of Chief Police Officers warned last November that a further 20% cut in Home Office funding over the next parliament could lead to the loss of more than 34,000 police jobs, including 22,000 officers, from a total workforce of 205,000.<\/p>\n Labour has already committed to matching the next round of police spending cuts, totalling \u00a3299 million.<\/p>\n The number of police officers in England and Wales has already fallen by 16,000 as a result of the first round of austerity cuts from a peak of 141,600 at the time of the last General Election in 2010 to 125,400 a year ago.<\/p>\n Commenting on the crime and justice manifesto, Labour leader Ed Miliband said: \u201cNeighbourhood policing \u2013 the foundation of good policing \u2013 is at risk of disappearing, while increasing numbers of serious criminals are being left off the hook.<\/p>\n \u201cLabour has a better plan. We will make different choices, finding savings to safeguard 10,000 officers in the next three years.\u201d<\/p>\n The Conservative manifesto does set out plans to \u201cfinish the job\u201d of police reform, namely ensuring the availability of health-based places of safety for mental health, overhauling the complaints system and reforming stop and search. Concerning for police officers and the service is the Tories\u2019 announcement that they will plough an extra \u00a38 billion into the NHS. But they have not explained exactly where that money will come from.<\/p>\n The Liberal Democrats are focusing on crime prevention and early intervention, in particular breaking the cycle of re-offending and introducing training programmes for prisoners to allow them re-integrate into society.<\/p>\n UKIP are against further cuts to frontline policing and they plan to redirect money from the foreign aid budget to deliver this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Labour Party has outlined an \u00a3800 million plan to protect neighbourhood policing and safeguard the jobs of 10,000 police officers over the next three years. This is one of\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}