'Turning point for policing in this country' vow as major cop cash boost announced

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced an other £100million to boost neighbourhood policing - but unit bosses person warned they request much support

Labour contiguous pledged to plough an other £100million into neighbourhood policing to boost the fig of officers connected the ground.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the committedness volition beryllium a "major turning constituent for policing successful this country". It comes arsenic main constables pass they could person to marque cuts contempt a £1billion backing boost announced past year.

Policing curate Dame Diana Johnson said she was "not pretending" that forces are not facing backing challenges. The caller authorities has pledged to summation neighbourhood teams by 13,000 officers, PCSOs and peculiar constables by 2029 aft years of Tory cutbacks. Ms Cooper said: "By doubling other neighbourhood backing to £200million, we are giving forces crossed the state what they request to enactment much officers and PCSOs wherever they're needed astir - connected our streets and successful our municipality centres.

"Every neighbourhood deserves dedicated officers who cognize their patch, recognize residents' concerns and tin tackle problems earlier they escalate."

Dame Diana said much officers connected the crushed would assistance to people antisocial behaviour and grounds levels of shoplifting. Ministers acceptable retired a provisional 3.5% real-terms summation successful backing for forces, with a £986.9 cardinal bundle successful December. But this was abbreviated of the £1.3billion other currency unit bosses said they would need.

Dame Diana said: "I'm not pretending that it isn't hard and challenging for constabulary forces. Obviously Police and Crime Commissioners and main constables person to marque decisions locally astir what's the champion constitution of their unit successful presumption of constabulary officers."

The Labour frontbencher added that the Government was "starting from a hard position" aft 14 years nether the Conservatives. She added: "Those constabulary forces, and I'm precise good alert of Essex and Lincolnshire, those constabulary forces that are struggling, we privation to enactment with them. We privation to marque this work."

Lincolnshire Police has said its stock was a "tiny percentage" of what it needed and warned it could person to chopped up to 400 serviceman and unit jobs. Essex Police said the other £100 cardinal would spell "some way" to bridging its £5.3 cardinal backing gap.

Lincolnshire main constable Paul Gibson said: "There whitethorn beryllium immoderate imaginable other wealth to enactment the neighbourhood policing pledge. We invited immoderate further backing that is allocated to policing but unluckily this volition beryllium a tiny percent of what we need."

Total backing to constabulary forces volition beryllium up to £17.5 cardinal adjacent twelvemonth nether the caller government's last settlement, an summation of up to £1.1 cardinal connected the erstwhile year.

The 13,000 neighbourhood officers could beryllium recently recruited oregon they could beryllium "currently serving officers being moved into neighbourhood roles", a No 10 spokesperson said.

Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, who chairs the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said: “We invited the concern successful neighbourhood policing, which is simply a captious portion of however we prosecute with our communities, gathering spot and assurance locally.

“Working with our communities and partners to occupation solve, tackle anti-social behaviour, supporting victims of home abuse, and diverting young radical from offending are conscionable immoderate examples of the challenging and rewarding enactment officers do."