Keir Starmer to reveal the plans for police officers on foot to patrol each committed neighborhood | Police

Police officers on foot patrol each neighborhood engaged in the top hours as part of a series of measures focused on the community to be revealed by Keir Starmer.

In an announcement invoiced as a return to an era of “Bobbies on the beat”, the prime minister will also confirm that each neighborhood in England And Wales will be given a police officer appointed and contacted.

The plans will be expected by July and the government promises to restore confidence in the community police will follow. Labor’s leadership is under pressure to offer new policies to the party councilors in England to sell on the door while preparing to fight local elections on May.

Starmer will say that the visible police have drastically decreased in the last ten years and will reiterate the plans to put more officers in more officers in neighborhood police roles by 2029.

“For years, crimes such as heated and antisocial behavior have caused chaos in our neighborhoods,” he will say. “The police became reactive, collecting the pieces after crimes have occurred.

“Great Britain deserves better. It shouldn’t import where you live: everyone deserves a local and visible police that can be trusted.”

Officials said each neighborhood in England and Wales It will have dedicated teams “on the rhythm” with police patrols guaranteed in top times such as Friday and Saturday evening. There will also be a manager of the antisocial behavior dedicated in every force, working with residents and companies to develop tailor -made action plans, said a declaration.

The model announced by Starmer is inspired by an initiative launched two years ago by the Greater Manchester Police (GMP), which the force said that she had contributed to reducing the theft with a third party, the vehicle’s crime crime and led to the sentence of about 100 driver per week.

In addition to having an officer appointed for each area, GMP has sent more resources – both visible and under cover – in problematic areas such as particular supermarkets and local parks, partly based on the data that identify the crime hotspots.

Ch Insp Stephen Warriner, by GMP, admitted that the police in recent years had “lost the trust of our activities and communities to report the crime”.

As part of his neighborhood police guide, GMP is known for having placed undercover officers in stores that wore uniforms of the supermarket in an attempt to capture thieves in the act.

Warriner did not deny that the strength used this approach when he was asked of journalists in Manchester this week, saying only: “We will certainly be our best to be blending as part of the community”.

Darryl Stuartet-Cole, the director of a Cooperative Supermarket of Withington, South Manchester, said that his shop was targeted 20-30 times a week by the driver and that part of his staff now feared to go to work. “Most transgressors enter, fill the bags and go out,” he said, adding that four or five authors of regular crimes were responsible for the vast majority of theft.

In its general electoral manifesto of 2024, Labor Promised 13,000 other police officers At the forefront, consisting of completely guaranteed officers, community support officers and voluntary specialties. The announcement will include the first tranche, about a third, of the promised officers.

The forces will have a say in the mix between completely guaranteed officers, support agents of the police community, special and potentially employing police staff to free the officers in the Back Office works to return to front roles.

A Senior Police source said: “It is a welcome money. We would prefer to take the money without attached strings and invest in other things. But no police heads are about to reject multiple police officers if they are offered”.

Since 2010, the conservative government has cut the budgets and the numbers of the officers of 20,000 as part of their austerity program. So, in view of the 2019 elections, they announced a madness of taking 20,000 new officers.

The government has put aside £ 200 million to finance neighborhood police in this financial year, which comes out of the central police settlement. However, several forces have warned that existing financing levels mean that they will still have to make cuts.

Crime should be a key battlefield in the local elections, with the last survey by Yougov Tracker showing that 63% of the public believes that the government is seriously managing crime in the United Kingdom.

In response to Starmer’s announcement, Chris Philp, the secretary of the House Shadow, said: “The previous conservative government has delivered record police officers, but the law and order are taking a rear seat under work.

“They must scream urgently to guarantee our police the resources they need to cut the crime and protect the British people.”