Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has written to Chief Constables setting out her priorities for policing.

The Home Secretary spoke with all Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners within her first days of office, on 7th July. In that same week on 11^th July, the Home Secretary attended meetings of both the NPCC and APCC to set out this Government’s Safer Streets mission and priorities for policing.

She discussed her priorities for policing with sector leaders at the National Policing Board on 23^rd October and, on 19^th November, set out more detail of her plans to all Chief Constables and PCCs at the National Police Chiefs Council and Association of Police Crime Commissioners Summit.

The Home Secretary wrote to all Chief Constables and Police Crime Commissioners (PCCs) on 5^th December on the Government’s Plan for Change and the ambition to restore neighbourhood policing.