Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with the Metropolitan Police to help tackle police abstractions from Sutton Borough to Central London.

Visible and responsive policing in communities is critical and that is why the Government’s Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee is placing 13,000 additional police personnel into neighborhood policing roles.

The Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee will hold forces to account for ensuring neighbourhood policing teams are protected from routine abstraction to ensure neighbourhood teams remain focused on serving their local communities and providing a visible policing presence.