Ms Cooper is also expected to announce a “neighbourhood policing guarantee” within weeks, as well as more funding amid concerns from police chiefs that they could be left short by the costs of increased national insurance employers’ contributions and a 4.75 per cent pay rise for officers.
It is thought that about £50 million will go to the Metropolitan Police, which is due to receive a total of £3.5 billion in 2024-25, an increase of 3.5 per cent.
However, the extra cash is unlikely to plug the hole in the Met’s finances. It is understood that over the next two years the force faces a shortfall of up to £350 million.
Ms Cooper will say the Government will deliver an additional 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs and work with the College of Policing to support the rollout of a new specialist training programme for neighbourhood policing.
In an article for The Telegraph, Emily Spurrell, chairman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said forces needed to do more to prevent crime. She said police and crime commissioners (PCCs) were key to achieving this by bringing together different agencies with the police.
“As PCCs, we have the necessary relationships and convening power to coordinate and deliver effective local services to prevent crime, rehabilitate offenders and, importantly, support victims,” she said.
We must do things differently
By Emily Spurrell, Chairman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners