Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will recruit 13,000 new officers, PCSOs and special constables to get “neighbourhood police back on to the streets”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This is 13,000 more police and PCSOs into neighbourhood policing teams on our streets.
00:07We know that we've lost over 10,000 neighbourhood police and PCSOs from our streets over the last
00:1410 years. That's deeply damaging for communities. It will be a mix of new police officers,
00:19of new PCSOs, of new specials and also of some redeployed police officers as well.
00:26As we cut the bureaucracy that police currently face, we can get them back on the streets because
00:31they've been taken off the streets in recent years. We'll be working with police forces
00:36on getting the neighbourhood police back onto the streets. We're including £100 million next year
00:43for new recruitment. That'll cover about, that's equivalent to about 1,200 police officers,
00:49new police officers next year. But it'll be a matter for police forces to work with us
00:54on how we get that mix of police officers and also PCSOs and also redeploy some of the officers
01:01who are frankly stuck doing far too much bureaucracy. And we're also setting out
01:05ways in which we can cut the bureaucracy that police officers face at the moment
01:10because I think there's a lot of police officers who also want to get back onto the beat.