division_name: Crime and Neighbourhood Policing
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b221.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House condemns the Government&#8217;s destruction of neighbourhood policing, noting a drop in the number of neighbourhood police officers by 6,000 and of Police Community Support Officers by 8,500; notes with concern the collapse in charges and prosecutions across all types of crime and an overall charge rate of just 5.5 per cent; is extremely concerned by the record levels of recorded rapes and knife-enabled threats to kill and that more than twenty million people witnessed or experienced antisocial behaviour last year; and calls on the Government to protect communities across the UK by increasing neighbourhood policing, including by ringfencing a proportion of the Police Uplift Programme to deliver neighbourhood officers for every local authority in England and Wales.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b229.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;welcomes the Government&#8217;s efforts to increase police numbers, with 16,743 so far recruited and on track to meet the Government&#8217;s 20,000 target by March; notes that there will be more officers than ever before in England and Wales; recognises that, excluding online crime, overall crime is down by 50 per cent since 2010; notes with concern that the Labour Mayor of London has  overseen a 9 per cent increase in knife crime while the number of young people assaulted with sharp objects is down nationally by 23 per cent since 2019; notes that adult rape convictions are up by a third in the last recorded year; notes that the Safer Streets Fund rounds have funded 270 projects designed to cut neighbourhood crimes such as theft, burglary, anti-social behaviour, and violence against women and girls; and welcomes the Government&#8217;s determination to back the police in giving them the powers they need to crack down on dangerous criminals and protests that wreak havoc on ordinary people&#8217;s lives.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b242.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Women and girls are...being systematically failed by a system that&#8217;s meant to protect them&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b263.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Crime, gangs, and gun violence were all brought up often when talking about what the young people at the Carrbridge Centre in Woodchurch were worried about in their area. These young people&#8217;s ages ranged from 10 to 14, and they felt scared about the issues going on in their neighbourhood, and felt they couldn&#8217;t do anything about it&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b263.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to disrupt Merseyside&#8217;s corrosive and deadly organised crime groups&#8221;,</p>