Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase public trust and confidence in policing.
Answered on
29 July 2024
This answer is a correction from the original answer.
It is essential that the public can have confidence in the police; the government has committed to restoring confidence in policing to record levels, alongside halving violence against women and girls and halving knife crime over a decade. These are core aims of the government's mission to take back our streets.
The government is also committed to improving police standards by strengthening the police misconduct system and introducing mandatory national vetting standards.
Original answer
For far too long, violence against women and girls has been treated as an inevitability rather than the national emergency that it is. Our mission is to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, using every tool at our disposal to protect victims and to get dangerous offenders off the streets.
That must start with drastically improving the policing and criminal justice response, ensuring that every force has the specialist capability to respond swiftly and robustly to these devastating crimes, and we will be bringing forward plans shortly to drive up standards across policing.