The Home Office has announced that police forces across England and Wales are set to receive a funding boost of up to £798 million in the next financial year. This brings total funding up to £19.5 billion.
The majority of this funding is for local forces, with an additional £746 million allowing them to prioritise the crimes impacting their communities, including knife crime, anti-social behaviour and shop theft.
Additionally, funding for Counter Terrorism Policing will increase by at least £52 million. This will bring its total funding to up to more than £1.2 billion.
The Government’s Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee has put named, contactable officers in every community, increased peak time patrols in town centres and placed anti-social behaviour leads in every force.
A final settlement providing more detail on grant allocations will be released early next year once the Government’s Police Reform White Paper has been published. This will set out reforms to bring policing into the modern age with the technology, innovation and structures forces need to fight crime and protect communities.