Lib Dems pledge to put 3,000 more police on UK streets with Safer Streets – More and Better Police policy paper
Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker recently announced his support for the Lib Dem General Election pledge to add an additional 56 bobbies on the beat in Sussex.
The announcement comes as part of a national pledge by the Lib Dems, announced last week by the Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg, and the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne, to put an additional 3,000 police on the streets of the UK as part of the launch of the Liberal Democrats’ Safer Streets – More and Better Police policypaper.
The Lib Dem proposals also include moves towards more effective policing by removing red tape and cutting bureaucracy, ensuring that police officers are freed up to spend more time on the streets.
Norman Baker said: “Although crime is mercifully relatively low in my constituency, people do feel safer when they see a regular uniformed presence on the streets. I am therefore pleased to announce the Lib Dem Election pledge to do just that by providing additional officers and freeing up the current ones from laborious form-filling, we will achieve this.”
The additional officers will be funded by scrapping the government’s I.D card scheme.
Norman Baker added: “The Lib Dems are the only party that wants to cut crime by putting more police on the street and I would certainly rather have more police, catching more criminals, than an intrusive, expensive and unnecessary I.D card scheme.”
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