Labour Manifesto 2017
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POLICE<br />
AND CRIME<br />
Last year, there were an estimated<br />
6.1 million incidents of crime<br />
experienced by adults in England<br />
and Wales. Almost every police<br />
force in the country recorded an<br />
increase in crime, with worrying<br />
rises in some of the most violent<br />
offences, including gun and nife<br />
crime and homicide.<br />
On Theresa May’s watch, police<br />
numbers have been cut by 20,000.<br />
Cuts to the police force endanger<br />
communities and endanger police<br />
officers too. <strong>Labour</strong>’s approach to<br />
policing crime will be different.<br />
We will support the police in the<br />
performance of their duties. We will<br />
provide officers, police community<br />
support officers and civilian staff with<br />
the equipment and people they need<br />
to provide effective policing services,<br />
including from the growing threat of<br />
cybercrime. We will work with them<br />
to ensure that our communities are<br />
safer, for all of us.<br />
We will champion community policing<br />
policies and incentivise good policing<br />
practice, working with Police and<br />
Crime Commissioners throughout<br />
the country on strategies to prevent<br />
crime. We will also work to eliminate<br />
institutional biases against BAME<br />
communities, that mean you are still<br />
far more likely to be stopped and<br />
searched as a black or Asian man.<br />
76 FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW
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