Keir Starmer pledges 3,000 new neighbourhood police officers by start of 2026

Also speaking in Cambridgeshire, she said: “So to set out the new neighbourhood policing guarantee today, the named, contactable officers, the additional plans for neighbourhood policing in every region and restoring that principle of officers and PCSOs, who know their local communities, work with local businesses and communities to solve problems and prevent crimes and to target repeat offenders and gather that intelligence to convict criminals and get justice.”