Police: Harlow

(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the number of police officers in Harlow.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 31st March 2021

The Government is committed to increasing the number of police officers in England and Wales by 20,000 by the end of March 2023.

Essex Police was allocated 135 additional officers in the first year of the police uplift which covers the period to the end of March 2021. In 2020/21 the force received funding of £320.2m. As at 31 December 2020, Essex Police had recruited 101 additional officers.

As announced in the Police Settlement 2021/22, Essex Police has been allocated 132 additional officers for year two of the Police Uplift Programme. Essex Police will receive funding of up to £339m in 2021/22, an increase of up to £18.8m since 2020/21.

The deployment of these officers is an operational decision for the Chief Constable of Essex Police.

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