Plans to recruit more officers to Northamptonshire Police are moving ahead, making the most of the contribution you make to policing locally through the policing part of the council tax and the national uplift to police funding.
Chief Constable Nick Adderley and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold.
Last year, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold pledged to recruit 83 additional police officers to increase the numbers in Northamptonshire Police to 1310. We will have reached these numbers by the summer.
The Government’s extra funding for policing will boost the number of police officers even further, to 1,367 officers by March 2021. While the funding isn’t yet confirmed, this should take the Force to over 1,500 officers by 2023.
Stephen Mold said: “Your contributions through the part of the council tax that goes towards policing have played a vital role in making this happen.”
Other improvements have also been made, including: visiting every victim of burglary and improving investigation; putting a focus on local policing, with the establishment of two local policing areas and bringing teams such as roads crime and dogs back under local control.
Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service is also benefitting from increased investment, which has allowed the Chief Fire Officer to invest in seven new fire vehicles and 20 new firefighters – increasing the size of the fire service by 12.
You can watch Stephen Mold, the Chief Constable Nick Adderley and the Chief Fire Officer Darren Dovey explaining the police and fire service budgets on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvdbkcxTvJ4 (police)
