Yvette Cooper responds to new figures showing a fall in police and NCA officer numbers

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to new police workforce statistics showing a fall in officer numbers including National Crime Agency staff, said:

“On a day of more Tory infighting, these are bombshell statistics that show the Conservatives cannot be trusted to keep our streets or our borders safe.

“Not content with cutting bobbies on the beat from our local communities, they are now cutting NCA officers too - the law enforcement body responsible for smashing the smuggling gangs operating in the Channel.

“Labour will restore order to the border, establish a new police unit to smash the smuggler gangs and put neighbourhood police back on our streets, to keep our local communities safe."

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Notes:

• New police workforce statistics were published by the Home Office today - Police workforce, England and Wales: 30 September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
  
  
• Table 1 shows falls between March and September 2023 of:
  
  

• 311 police officers
• 343 National Crime Agency officers
• 611 PCSOs
• 511 special constables.