Crime Prevention: Greater London

(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce crime in London.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 8th November 2022

The Government is funding a range of initiatives in London to reduce crime. These include money for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU); targeted police activity to reduce serious violence; investment to prevent neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls and anti-social behaviour through our Safer Streets Fund; and work to prevent drug related crime through Project ADDER (Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery).

These initiatives are in addition to the investment we have made available through the police uplift programme. The Metropolitan Police has recruited 3,109 additional uplift officers and the City of London has recruited 161 additional uplift officers.

As at 30 September 2022, there are 35,052 police officers (headcount) in the Metropolitan Police Service. This is the highest number of officers on record since comparable records began.

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