Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of police officers in the London Borough of Havering.

The Government committed to recruiting 20,000 additional police officers across England and Wales, by 31 March 2023.

We await the final data, however we remain confident we will have delivered this commitment by the end of March 2023. This will take us to over 148,400 officers across England and Wales, the highest number of officers on record in history.

Through the police uplift, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has grown its officer workforce. When compared with its pre-Police uplift peak of 33,820 officers in March 2010, the MPS now has 35,160 officers as at 31 December 2022.

Decisions on how to use police resources including officer deployment are operational matters for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners. In the case of the MPS, the Commissioner and the Mayor of London exercise these functions respectively.