Crime: What has Boris Johnson promised on law and order?
Since becoming prime minister just over a month ago, Boris Johnson has made a number of law-and-order announcements affecting England and Wales.Up to £2.5bn funding to create 10,000 new prison places.The government already had a target, announced in 2015, of creating 10,000 places in new prisons by 2020.
This new target will partly be achieved by expanding HMP Full Sutton, in Yorkshire, although expansion at this site has been planned since 2016. And since 2011, those overcrowding limits have been cut by about 2,500 as cells have been closed or fallen into disrepair.My job is to make your streets safer – and we are going to begin with another 20,000 police on the streetsHire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2022. Mr Johnson says the policy will cost £1.1bn.There are currently 122,000 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010, when the Conservatives came to power and Theresa May became home secretary.
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