Yvette Cooper responds to the Government announcement on anti-social behaviour

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to the Government announcement on anti-social behaviour, said:

"This plan is too weak, too little and too late. 

"Over the last 13 years the Conservatives have decimated neighbourhood policing and youth services and weakened antisocial behaviour powers so they are barely used. 

"There are still 10,000 fewer neighbourhood police and PCSOs on our streets than there were 7 years ago. 

"A few hotspot pilots is nowhere near enough to turn that around. We need guaranteed neighbourhood patrols and action in all areas or this is just yet more empty rhetoric. 

"Labour will put 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs back on the beat to keep our communities safe."

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https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales