We have a clear plan to cut crime and anti-social behaviour, by reforming the police to make them more responsive and by reforming the criminal justice system to cut re-offending. We are working with police forces to drive out wasteful spending, and increase efficiency in the backroom roles.
- We have scrapped all targets and set the police one objective: to cut crime.
- We are cutting costs and scrapping bureaucracy, saving millions of police hours – so officers can spend less time on paperwork and more time on the beat.
- We are introducing measures to make the police accountable to local communities through directly-elected Police and Crime Commissioners.
- We will create a new National Crime Agency to fight serious and organised crime including the exploitation of children, and cyber crime.
- We have launched police.uk, a street by street level crime map that shows detailed local crime data so the public can get proper information about crime in their neighbourhoods and hold the police to account for their performance.
- We will require police forces to hold regular 'beat meetings' so that residents can hold them to account.
- We have banned the sale of alcohol at below the price of duty plus vat to address binge drinking.
- We are tackling binge drinking without unfairly penalising responsible drinkers, pubs and important local industries.
- We are doubling the fines on premises selling alcohol to the under-aged and to allow councils and the police to shut down permanently any shop or bar that persistently sells alcohol to children.
- We have introduced powers to quickly ban ‘legal highs’ to better protect vulnerable young people.