PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Police: Community Development (15 October 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that police officers are able to effectively engage with all communities.
Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Reform UK)
Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Reform UK)
Answer
Police forces that reflect the communities they serve are crucial to maintaining public trust and confidence in a modern diverse society, and the police workforce is now more representative than it has ever been.
The Home Secretary has also made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, which includes the addition of thousands more neighbourhood police personnel, as part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission.
Answered by:
Dame Diana Johnson (Labour)
23 October 2024
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