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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Margaret Davis

Plans to bring in thousands more neighbourhood police ‘will take years’

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said public confidence has been eroded by the reduction in neighbourhood policing. (Nick Ansell/PA) - (PA Archive)

Plans to bring in thousands more police officers to tackle a surge in neighbourhood crime will take a number of years, the Home Secretary has said.

Yvette Cooper told a policing conference in Westminster that the number of people who never see a police officer on the beat has doubled since 2010.

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