Boris Johnson’s pledge to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers is being welcomed by Warrington South Prospective MP Andy Carter and Crime Commissioner candidate for Cheshire John Dwyer, who’ve jointly called for more Officers to be deployed into Warrington.
Andy Carter says there needs to be a drive to secure more officers onto the streets and working with communities; “Too frequently I hear that there are concerns about anti-social behaviour which gives rise to so many other problems within neighbourhoods.”
“This weekend I’ve been out on the doorstep, talking to people here in Warrington and like me, people are pleased this is being prioritised by Boris. There’s no such thing as petty crime, every crime has a consequence and we need to focus onto tackling problems with drugs, car crime and burglary which impact families here in Warrington.”
John Dwyer said the pledge by Boris Johnson to start recruiting 20,000 more police officers will also make an immediate impact on many of the major issues Officers are facing by boosting front line officers.
He said: "Having more police officers on the beat will go a long way to cracking the rise of such things as knife crime, which is blighting our towns and cities across the country.
"An increased police presence will reassure the public that this government takes their safety seriously and also sends a message to criminals and would-be criminals that any sort of crime or anti-social will not be tolerated.
"While crime rates in our towns and villages across Cheshire are not on a scale of our major cities there is still a lot to be done and we need to get tougher on offenders. An increase in front line officers will have a positive impact on the crime detection rate which has slumped since I left office in 2016."
Mr Dwyer, who currently works as a management consultant, previously held the post of Cheshire Crime Commissioner in 2012 and introduced a priority-based budgeting approach to the constabulary which allowed him to invest in more police officers, raising the level of the establishment to almost the 2010 level.
He said: "Under my stewardship, the Cheshire Constabulary was rated as 'outstanding' by Her Majesty's inspector of constabulary. Although my role wasn't being inspected, I took this rating as a clear indication that my leadership had made a significant contribution to this result."
