Chris Philp: With crime and antisocial behaviour unacceptably high it’s time to ‘Take Back our Streets’
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Chris Philp MP is the Shadow Home Secretary.
We can all feel that order is breaking down on our streets and within our communities.
Crime and antisocial behaviour are at unacceptably high levels and the social contract that helped make Britain unique is coming apart at the seams.
We used to be known as one of the most orderly countries in the world. But now, every day, too many people witness things that anger and alarm them: towns blighted by graffiti and litter, cannabis being openly dealt and smoked on the street, shoplifting rampant, phones being snatched or yet another headline of a young life cut short by a knife. Our communities have become less civil and more dangerous. I hear it everywhere I go, with good, ordinary, decent citizens telling me they are fed up. People are often afraid on their own high streets.
It does not have to be like this.
We know that when respect for the rules that bind our communities together breaks down, it doesn’t just make the law-abiding majority feel unsafe, but it also fuels a culture of lawlessness that leads to far worse crimes.
The first duty of government is to protect the public. That means taking action against those who make their neighbours’ lives a misery. It means backing our police officers to enforce the law – every law – no matter the perpetrator.
As Conservatives, we are clear who we stand for: the law-abiding majority who agree the police should be backed to enforce the law on everyone.
That’s we we’ve launched our plan to Take Back Our Streets.
The first priority is restoring a strong police presence where crime is most concentrated. Conservatives will recruit 10,000 extra police officers and deploy hotspot patrolling across the 2,000 highest-crime neighbourhoods. A quarter of all crime occurs in these 5 per cent of neighbourhoods. Concentrating visible policing in these places prevents offences and deters repeat offending. Our plan to hire 10,000 more officers will allow us to concentrate police presence in these areas and prevent around 35,000 crimes, including violence, theft, anti-social behaviour and public drug use.
We will also give officers the tools they need to disrupt crime before it escalates. Conservatives will triple the use of Stop and Search to take knives and drugs off the streets and increase arrests. Stop and Search is one of the most effective tools for removing weapons and drugs and disrupting violent gangs. But political pressure not to use stop and search is shackling the police. We will roll out stronger Section 60 coverage in hotspot areas and lower the bar to using stop and search by allowing officers to act on a single suspicion indicator outside those hotspots. This will deliver around one million additional searches a year and, based on detection rates, …
Ask why this angle was chosen.
Chris Philp MP is the Shadow Home Secretary.
We can all feel that order is breaking down on our streets and within our communities.
Crime and antisocial behaviour are at unacceptably high levels and the social contract that helped make Britain unique is coming apart at the seams.
We used to be known as one of the most orderly countries in the world. But now, every day, too many people witness things that anger and alarm them: towns blighted by graffiti and litter, cannabis being openly dealt and smoked on the street, shoplifting rampant, phones being snatched or yet another headline of a young life cut short by a knife. Our communities have become less civil and more dangerous. I hear it everywhere I go, with good, ordinary, decent citizens telling me they are fed up. People are often afraid on their own high streets.
It does not have to be like this.
We know that when respect for the rules that bind our communities together breaks down, it doesn’t just make the law-abiding majority feel unsafe, but it also fuels a culture of lawlessness that leads to far worse crimes.
The first duty of government is to protect the public. That means taking action against those who make their neighbours’ lives a misery. It means backing our police officers to enforce the law – every law – no matter the perpetrator.
As Conservatives, we are clear who we stand for: the law-abiding majority who agree the police should be backed to enforce the law on everyone.
That’s we we’ve launched our plan to Take Back Our Streets.
The first priority is restoring a strong police presence where crime is most concentrated. Conservatives will recruit 10,000 extra police officers and deploy hotspot patrolling across the 2,000 highest-crime neighbourhoods. A quarter of all crime occurs in these 5 per cent of neighbourhoods. Concentrating visible policing in these places prevents offences and deters repeat offending. Our plan to hire 10,000 more officers will allow us to concentrate police presence in these areas and prevent around 35,000 crimes, including violence, theft, anti-social behaviour and public drug use.
We will also give officers the tools they need to disrupt crime before it escalates. Conservatives will triple the use of Stop and Search to take knives and drugs off the streets and increase arrests. Stop and Search is one of the most effective tools for removing weapons and drugs and disrupting violent gangs. But political pressure not to use stop and search is shackling the police. We will roll out stronger Section 60 coverage in hotspot areas and lower the bar to using stop and search by allowing officers to act on a single suspicion indicator outside those hotspots. This will deliver around one million additional searches a year and, based on detection rates, …
Chris Philp: With crime and antisocial behaviour unacceptably high it’s time to ‘Take Back our Streets’
Ask why this angle was chosen.
Chris Philp MP is the Shadow Home Secretary.
We can all feel that order is breaking down on our streets and within our communities.
Crime and antisocial behaviour are at unacceptably high levels and the social contract that helped make Britain unique is coming apart at the seams.
We used to be known as one of the most orderly countries in the world. But now, every day, too many people witness things that anger and alarm them: towns blighted by graffiti and litter, cannabis being openly dealt and smoked on the street, shoplifting rampant, phones being snatched or yet another headline of a young life cut short by a knife. Our communities have become less civil and more dangerous. I hear it everywhere I go, with good, ordinary, decent citizens telling me they are fed up. People are often afraid on their own high streets.
It does not have to be like this.
We know that when respect for the rules that bind our communities together breaks down, it doesn’t just make the law-abiding majority feel unsafe, but it also fuels a culture of lawlessness that leads to far worse crimes.
The first duty of government is to protect the public. That means taking action against those who make their neighbours’ lives a misery. It means backing our police officers to enforce the law – every law – no matter the perpetrator.
As Conservatives, we are clear who we stand for: the law-abiding majority who agree the police should be backed to enforce the law on everyone.
That’s we we’ve launched our plan to Take Back Our Streets.
The first priority is restoring a strong police presence where crime is most concentrated. Conservatives will recruit 10,000 extra police officers and deploy hotspot patrolling across the 2,000 highest-crime neighbourhoods. A quarter of all crime occurs in these 5 per cent of neighbourhoods. Concentrating visible policing in these places prevents offences and deters repeat offending. Our plan to hire 10,000 more officers will allow us to concentrate police presence in these areas and prevent around 35,000 crimes, including violence, theft, anti-social behaviour and public drug use.
We will also give officers the tools they need to disrupt crime before it escalates. Conservatives will triple the use of Stop and Search to take knives and drugs off the streets and increase arrests. Stop and Search is one of the most effective tools for removing weapons and drugs and disrupting violent gangs. But political pressure not to use stop and search is shackling the police. We will roll out stronger Section 60 coverage in hotspot areas and lower the bar to using stop and search by allowing officers to act on a single suspicion indicator outside those hotspots. This will deliver around one million additional searches a year and, based on detection rates, …
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