Lancashire police and crime update 21 March 2024

Lancashire's police and crime commissioner Andrew Snowden with an update from a community meeting with local officers

Transcript

00:00 Hi, I'm Andrew Snowden, Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner.

00:04 And in this week's video, I'm actually just stopping to do this week's video, as you can

00:07 see behind me, whilst I've been at a community meeting with local police officers.

00:12 And you know my commitment to neighbourhood policing.

00:14 We've committed over the next three years to recruit an extra 20 officers a year for

00:19 neighbourhood policing alone.

00:20 And that's on top of all the hundreds of extra officers we've already recruited.

00:24 But the purpose of this video is to give you even more exciting news that we're getting

00:28 another 25 officers funded centrally from government for Lancashire.

00:34 So that's another 25 officers joining the ranks of Lancashire Constabulary.

00:38 That's really important for continuing to build the visible police presence in communities.

00:44 We've been here talking about the amazing work that the Ancestral Sheen Bay Hot Spot

00:47 Patrolling has been doing.

00:49 We've got the local members of the community here.

00:51 We actually stood near a shop that's been shut down by the council for illegal vape

00:55 trading.

00:56 So all of this work coming together to tackle the root causes, build visibility and to

01:01 make our streets safer.

01:02 We can only do that with excellent police officers out there doing great work.

01:07 So I'm delighted to say that on top of all the other things I've been announcing over

01:11 the last few years of more officers, yet another big wad of cash coming from government for

01:16 Lancashire for 25 more officers.