{"id":1440023,"date":"2022-04-15T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440023"},"modified":"2022-04-15T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:30:12","slug":"number-of-bobbies-on-the-beat-in-britain-fell-by-one-third-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/number-of-bobbies-on-the-beat-in-britain-fell-by-one-third-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of &#039;Bobbies on the Beat&#039; in Britain Fell by One Third in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnumber-of-bobbies-on-the-beat-in-britain-fell-by-one-third-in-five-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1227840202-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The number of police on foot patrol in communities has fallen by a third over the past five years, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s pledge to bolster the ranks of forces across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from\u00a0Her Majesty\u2019s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services, there are now only one\u00a0police community support officer (PCSO) for every 2,400 people in England and Wales. This is down from one officer per 1,650 people in 2012\/2013.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Colloquially known as \u201cbobbies on the beat\u201d in Britain, members of the PCSO are often tasked with maintaining social order by policing low-level street crime, such as anti-social behaviour, underage drinking, and littering.<\/p>\n<p>The number of police officers tasked with protecting local neighbourhoods has fallen by 7,000 since 2015, declining from 23,928 to 16,577\u00a0<em>The Telegraph\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/04\/13\/number-bobbies-beat-third-five-years\/\">reported<\/a>. The British broadsheet went on to report that in some localities in Cambridgeshire and Surrey, the number of bobbies on the beat has fallen to as low as one officer per 5,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The decline comes despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson campaigning on recruiting 20,000 police officers to deal with the rise in crime in Britain, with knife crime, in particular, plaguing the streets of cities across the nation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Implying that his plan would see more bobbies on the beat in 2019, Mr Johnson said:\u00a0\u201cPeople want to see more officers in their neighbourhoods, protecting the public and cutting crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the reality is that many of those recruited will not go into serving as on the ground officers.<\/p>\n<p>Under successive Conservative governments between 2010 and 2018, the number of officers in the country fell by over <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/general-election-boris-johnson-pledges-tough-new-measures-to-fight-knife-crime-11864770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">21,000<\/a> in England and Wales, meaning that despite claims of \u201cbolstering\u201d the ranks of the police force, it will still be smaller than before the Tories came into power.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the government has only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-nearly-half-way-to-recruiting-20000-more-officers\">announced<\/a> that it has met half of its target of 20,000 officers recruited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Knife crime in Britain has doubled in the previous six years, rising above 50,000 incidents in a one-year period in England and Wales for the first time in the recorded history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zpsf2PL2V8\">https:\/\/t.co\/zpsf2PL2V8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1365838124694183936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Under Tory rule, there has also been an increased police focus on monitoring so-called hate speech on the internet, with some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/15\/uk-police-recorded-120000-non-crime-hate-incidents\/\">120,000 non-crime hate incidents<\/a>\u00a0being recorded since the scheme was introduced in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the falling trust among the public in police forces, former chief constable Sara Thornton said last month that it is directly correlated with the lack of officers on patrol in local communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the police service valued it anything like as much as the public did,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cThe very obvious thing is that the service has lost connection with the public, and it needs to correct it as a matter of urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party\u2019s shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper also stressed the need for more community policing, saying:\u00a0\u201cPolice out on the beat and visible in local neighbourhoods are vital for stopping crime and keeping communities safe. Yet under the Tories, neighbourhood policing has been decimated, with fewer neighbourhood officers stretched to cover more and more people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Focus on Crime, Not Woke Virtue Signalling, Says Top Police Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VfeY5K61zr\">https:\/\/t.co\/VfeY5K61zr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1404750782679896069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of police on foot patrol in communities has fallen by a third over the past five years, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s pledge to bolster the ranks of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}