We created Operation Viper to tackle County Lines, and this has made over 200 arrests and closed 45 per cent of the County Lines in Dorset.
Even though we have reduced ASB by 59 per cent across Gloucestershire, I want us to tackle the rest, plus all the ASB that doesn’t get reported. That is why I have made substantial investments to improve the performance of our 101 non-emergency service.
The Conservatives are contesting 94.6 per cent of seats. Labour is contesting 91.4 per cent of them. But the rise of “split voting” means there should be caution of taking comfort for the General Election.
Only by re-electing me, having delivered on my promises to you, can we save our stations.
Many of our criminal justice partners would prefer me to focus on ‘out of court disposals’. But for some offenders, and their victims, a custodial sentence is the proper outcome.
So, before you click to buy reduced price perfumes online, hand over cash in the pub for a power tool, or pick up cheap canned food at your car boot sale, ask yourself where it came from?
The public are more intelligent when it comes to public spending than may politicians give them credit for, and they know the difference between organisations that waste money and those that don’t.
Victims are taken seriously and placed at the centre of the system. My proudest achievement has been the establishment of an excellent victims’ hub called Beacon which ensures that all victims of crime in Hertfordshire get the support they need. This gain has not been won easily.
Prisoners are skilled up to build the homes we most desperately need. These are modular, so can be built in factories with prisoners on day release – and are Net Zero, so are affordable and sustainable.
In one of our market towns, 80 per cent of drug county lines have been closed down in six months by our excellent police. Drug-driven shoplifting has nosedived.
When I came into office, Anti-Social Behaviour was the top concern of many residents and had not been prioritised.
Having seen the work my team and colleagues across the country do, I have no doubt that the public are best served by those who they can hold fully accountable.
In the last year 1,212 suspected gang members have been arrested, 286kg of drugs have been seized, and £1.2 million of cash has been taken off criminals. As a result, crime is now falling year on year in Lancashire.
What communities need from their police forces would be out in favour of top-down targets and threats of further action from the centre if chiefs don’t perform to the Labour mandate.
Public confidence is at stake, with low-level criminality continuing to etch away at police credibility. Swinging the needle may prove difficult, but the hollowing out of neighbourhood policing cannot continue.