The Home Office has today confirmed the officer recruitment targets for every police force in England and Wales for the first year of the unprecedented drive to increase their ranks by 20,000 over the next three years.
Bexleyheath and Crayford Councillors debated the lack of police numbers at last nights Full Council (16th July). They highlighted the failure of Labour Mayor Sadiq Kahn’s failure to recruit extra police when given cash to do so by the last Conservative Government.