Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled More bobbies on the beat as PM puts people's priorities first, published on 4 December 2024, what steps her Department is taking to recruit 13,000 (a) police officers, (b) special constables and (c) Police Community Support Officers by the end of this Parliament.

As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. This includes delivering an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles up and down the country and ensuring every community has a named officer to turn to. Every part of the country benefit from this pledge.

£100 million will be made available in 2025/26 to kickstart the recruitment of neighbourhood policing roles.

We are working closely with policing to implement this commitment and will announce our plans for the delivery of neighbourhood officers shortly.