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2nd Report – Police response to the 2024 summer disorder
Home Affairs Committee
HC 381
Published 14 April 2025
Recommendations
17
Accepted in Part
Benchmark Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee recruitment plans to ensure minimum officer numbers or flexible funding.
Recommendation
The Government should benchmark recruitment plans under the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee to ensure that, while flexibility for forces to recruit is maintained, minimum numbers for the recruitment of police officers can be set by the Home Office if required, or …
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Government Response Summary
The government provides £376.8 million, with £270.1 million ringfenced, for forces to maintain officer numbers in 2025-26, and expects an initial increase to the neighbourhood policing workforce. It does not commit to Home Office-set minimum recruitment numbers, maintaining local flexibility.
Home Office
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