Back to Basics - How Neighbourhood Policing Can Make Streets and Communities Safer

The Government should expedite the review of the Police Allocation Formula to ensure Police and Crime Commissioners have access to the right resources 5. [...] Of the Local Authorities in the upper quartile of Community Crime, 63% are in London, 30% in Northern England and 7% are in the Midlands. [...] An assessment of the New Deal for Communities by the Department for Communities and Local Government found that the use of neighbourhood wardens had ‘positive effects’ Back to Basics 32 on the residents ‘perceptions of the local area, the environment, the role of the partnership in improving the neighbourhood’122. [...] In 2006, the Home Office evaluated the success of the National Reassurance Policing Programme which aimed to Back to Basics 34 increase public confidence in the police, address anti-social behaviour and reduce the fear of crime138. [...] In 2022 the Strategic Policing Review of England and Wales concluded that ‘the “mechanistic application of the formula” in funding additional police officers perpetuated the gap between the best and least well-funded forces’168.