Policing
Truly safer neighbourhoods
Mike at Tuffrey Sydenham Police Station in Lewisham which is affected by cuts in policing budgets.
The former mayor doubled Council Tax and spending on ward-based police was massively increased. Yet fear of crime remains high, and the lives of too many young Londoners are blighted. It’s time to make neighbourhood policing a reality and get value from the money invested.
- Protect the staffing in the ward-level Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs) while cutting the waste and profligacy at the centre
- Each neighbourhood to have a proper plan for policing that really involves local people in decisions about deployment and opens up the police service
- Insist councils’ youth services work alongside the police, with at least one dedicated youth worker in each SNT