Sadiq Khan acts on manifesto pledge to get more police on streets

Big presence: Sadiq Khan once to up the number of police on the streets
Jeremy Selwyn
Justin Davenport13 May 2016
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More police officers are to be deployed on neighbourhood patrols in London as part of Sadiq Khan’s new vision of policing the capital.

Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said he was reviewing the force’s neighbourhood policing model as a result of meeting the new Mayor.

In his manifesto Mr Khan pledged to boost local officers on patrol in wards and he told the Evening Standard that he had raised the issue at his first meetings with the Met chief.

He said: “It is reassuring to have a commissioner who understands Londoners concerns and last Thursday’s election gives me a mandate to carry through the promises I made.

“I am clear after speaking to the current commissioner and previous senior officers how important neighbourhood policing is. As a dad with two teenage daughters I also understand how important it is we tackle knife crime.” He was talking after meeting Sir Bernard at an armed police terror training exercise in central London in which he praised the work of firearms officers.

Sir Bernard said a review was under way of the Met’s neighbourhood policing model, saying: “We will work on neighbourhood policing to see if we can improve that.”

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