There are now 4,171 police officers in Merseyside. 724 have been recruited since 2019.
More police means less crime and swifter justice for victims. Crime in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level on record, data from the Office for National Statistics shows. Incidents of violent crime have dropped by 28% in the year to June 2023.
With the Conservatives:
- Recruiting 20,000 new police officers: delivering on our manifesto commitment, we’ve recruited an additional 20,951 officers – backed by an investment of £540 million – so we now have more police than ever before
- Backing police budgets with £17 billion: including over £1 billion for Counter Terror policing and £1.4 billion to combat child sexual abuse, county lines drugs crime, and modern slavery
- Protecting front-line emergency workers: mandatory life sentences for killers of emergency workers and longer maximum sentences for assault of an emergency worker
- Violence Reduction Units and ‘hotspot policing’: this initiative resulted in 49,000 fewer incidents of violence, compared with areas that didn’t – preventing untold misery
- £796 million for Police and Crime Commissioners: ensuring our communities have strong, locally accountable policing across England and Wales