Crime: Keeping our streets safe
- The rise we’ve seen in serious violence is deeply worrying, and the Prime Minister has said it is our job to make our streets safer.
- People want to see more officers in their neighbourhoods with the powers they need to protect the public and cut crime – that is why we are putting 20,000 extra police on our streets, extending their powers to stop and search, and reviewing sentences for serious criminals.
- We are working with the police to tackle serious violent crime, empowering them and sending a clear message to criminals that they should be feel terror at the thought of committing offences.
Getting our country back on the road to a brighter future by:
- Hiring 20,000 new police officers to keep our streets safe. The unprecedented drive to deliver 20,000 more frontline police officers over the next three years will start in September with the launch of a national campaign, overseen by a new national policing board.[1]
- Making it simpler for the police to use emergency stop and search restrictions to take knives off our streets. We are empowering more than 8,000 police officers to authorise enhanced stop and search powers, as part of our efforts to crack down on violent crime.[2]
- Conducting an urgent review of sentencing to ensure the public are properly protected from the most dangerous criminals. This will focus on whether violent and sexual offenders are serving the right sentences and consider whether changes are needed to lock criminals up for longer.[3]
- Creating 10,000 extra prison places to hold the additional offenders who will be caught, charged and sentenced. Up to £2.5 billion will be spent on creating modern, efficient prisons to better reform criminals and keep the public safe, while an extra £100 million will aid the crackdown on crime within prisons.[4]
