‘No excuses’: Priti Patel tells police chiefs they MUST ensure there is ‘less crime and safer streets’ in exchange for 20,000 more officers and £41.5million in extra funding
- Home Secretary used a speech in London to unveil an extra £41.5million funding
- Demanded there was ‘less crime, safer streets, no excuses’ addressing top cops
- She added: ‘The public won’t accept them and neither should we’
The Home Secretary (pictured today) used a speech in London to unveil an extra £41.5million in ‘surge’ funding for forces across England and Wales.
Priti Patel demanded police chiefs slash crime and deliver safer streets in exchange for more officers today as she said neither she nor the public would accept any ‘excuses’.
The Home Secretary used a speech in London to unveil an extra £41.5million in ‘surge’ funding for forces across England and Wales.
But addressing the National Police Chiefs’ Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners joint summit she warned that she expected results from the Tories’ pledge to fund 20,000 more officers on the beat in the next three years.
She demanded there was ‘less crime, safer streets, no excuses’, adding: ‘The public won’t accept them and neither should we.’
She told the audience that they were being set ‘quite a challenge to reduce murder, serious violence and neighbourhood crime’, saying: ‘That is an ambitious list, but it is no more than the public expects.’
In her speech today (pictured) she demanded there was ‘less crime, safer streets, no excuses’, adding: ‘The public won’t accept them and neither should we’
The Home Secretary, who is at the centre of a bullying row involving civil servants in her department, left the event after her speech without taking any questions from police officers or the media.