The 2023/24 funding package will see an increase of up to £267
million on last year and means policing will receive up to £17.2
billion in total for 2023/24.
The police sector will receive a nominal funding boost of up to
£287 million next year to help victims feel safe and deliver more
visible policing, the Home Secretary has announced.
The rise will take total funding for policing up to £17.2 billion
and mean police and crime commissioners across the 43 police
forces in England and Wales will receive a nominal increase of up
to £523 million from government grants and precept income to
focus on getting the basics right, such as driving down
anti-social behaviour and neighbourhood crime which can so easily
rip through our communities.
The government is giving police crime commissioners in England
the ability to raise up to £349 million, through a council tax
precept limit of £15.
This provisional settlement will provide £1.1 billion towards
national policing priorities, including tackling the scourge of
serious violence, county lines, exploitation, abuse, fraud and
cyber crime.
Funding for counter-terrorism policing will continue to total
over £1 billion, including continued funding for armed policing
and the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre.
We are also giving policing the funding they need to maintain the
20,000 additional police officers recruited as part of the
government’s unprecedented campaign to put more police on the
streets, ensuring our forces respond to crime effectively and to
take a more proactive response in managing crime demand.
Home Secretary, , said:
Our police make sacrifices every day to protect the British
people, and I am steadfast in my admiration for our hardworking,
brave and dedicated officers.
It is vital that we continue to invest in the priorities that
matter most to our communities, and we must do more to cut crime
and restore confidence in our police.
With over 15,000 additional officers already recruited and
thousands more on the way, this package will support our forces
to get the basics right and keep communities safe across country.
We will continue to improve our criminal justice system for
victims by prioritising the funding commitments made in the rape
review and investing in a new victim satisfaction survey to shine
a light on performance and drive improvements in the support
police forces provide to victims.
Through police and government efforts to tackle the crime that
hits our communities the hardest, since 2019:
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90,000 weapons have been taken off our streets
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over 49,000 violent offences have been prevented and 260,000
vulnerable young people have been supported through ‘Grip’
hotspot policing and Violence Reduction Units.
The publication of the provisional funding settlement opens a
period of consultation. The final police funding settlement will
be debated in Parliament ahead of the new financial year.
