The government has hired enough police officers to bring the numbers back to what they were before the Tories came to power - though not as high as they had hoped for.
Suella Braverman, the home secretary, said the new hires will help ‘prevent violence’ Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted: ‘In 2019, we promised to recruit 20,000 additional police officers in England and Wales to make our streets safer and protect communities.Home secretary Suella Braverman added in a tweet: ‘We have delivered on the promise we made to the British people and put more police on the beat to prevent violence, solve more burglaries and crack down on antisocial behaviour.
In usual police workforce reports, the number of officers is shown in terms of full-time equivalent employment and headcount. So one police officer working full-time and another working part-time would count as 1.5, the Home Office said. ‘Uplift/replacement is calculated by net “headcount” increase of officers . By end of Dec 2022, headcount increase was 16,753, that’s 3,247 short of 20,000 target.
The number of police officers in the UK has long been the subject of debate among policy-makers, pundits and the public alike.
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