00:00This is 13,000 more police and PCSOs into neighbourhood policing teams on our streets.
00:07We know that we've lost over 10,000 neighbourhood police and PCSOs from our streets over the last
00:1410 years. That's deeply damaging for communities. It will be a mix of new police officers,
00:19of new PCSOs, of new specials and also of some redeployed police officers as well.
00:26As we cut the bureaucracy that police currently face, we can get them back on the streets because
00:31they've been taken off the streets in recent years. We'll be working with police forces
00:36on getting the neighbourhood police back onto the streets. We're including £100 million next year
00:43for new recruitment. That'll cover about, that's equivalent to about 1,200 police officers,
00:49new police officers next year. But it'll be a matter for police forces to work with us
00:54on how we get that mix of police officers and also PCSOs and also redeploy some of the officers
01:01who are frankly stuck doing far too much bureaucracy. And we're also setting out
01:05ways in which we can cut the bureaucracy that police officers face at the moment
01:10because I think there's a lot of police officers who also want to get back onto the beat.
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