Yesterday, the Prime Minister and Home Secretary visited the Surrey Police headquarters to launch the government’s new Beating Crime Plan.
This plan is the most comprehensive strategy of its kind to cut crime, protect victims and make streets safer. Measures in the plan include:
- Expanding the use of electronic monitoring, so convicted burglars and thieves have their whereabouts monitored upon release from prison.
- Making unpaid work more visible by getting offenders to clean up streets, alleys, estates and open spaces.
- Making sure that everybody who has been a victim of crime will have a named police officer to get in touch with.
This is on top of what the government is already doing to keep crime low in Elmbridge, including boosting Surrey Police’s funding, and recruiting 110 new officers in 2020/21.
Last week, I caught up with Surrey’s new Police and Crime Commissioner, Lisa Townsend (pictured above), to feed local concerns into her plans to cut crime in Surrey. This shows how a unified Conservative team, at national and local levels, is working to keep crime low across Elmbridge.
You can read more about the Beating Crime Plan here.