On 26th April Home Secretary Suella Braverman appeared in the media talking about Government plans to increase levels of policing they have been cutting since 2010.
Braverman did not make it to the Commons to defend her points but left it to a Ministerial Colleague Chris Philp.Yvette Cooper responded for Labour.
While the continuing debacle of the Met Police suggests there is lot more to the policing crisis than numbers and while I also find Labour’s approach somewhat of the curate’s egg variety at best, Yvette Cooper calling out Braverman for talking waffle on woke was spot on
As for meeting records, well, yes, they are meeting some records: a record number of crimes not being solved; a record number of people saying they never see police on the street; record numbers of police officers leaving policing last year; record low charge rates last year for rape and sexual offences. And then we have got serious violence rising: knife crime up; gun crime up. And of course the fraud and online crime that they never want to talk about is also at a record high. What has the Home Secretary got to say about that this morning—just some more waffle about woke. She has got nothing new to say to tackle the problems.
And I would add record numbers of police officers being accused of serious crimes