Tackling crime, antisocial behaviour & rural crime

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This year Cambridgeshire Police will receive a budget increase of 6.1% and an uplift of 206 officers. As your MP I will work closely with the Chief Constable to tackle key areas, including county lines drug dealing in our towns, antisocial behaviour, rural crime and domestic violence.

Having already discussed policing priorities here with the Chief Constable I am well aware of the challenges the force faces, particularly with regards to resources. As such I will champion a change to the funding formula that currently sees Cambridgeshire receive a smaller share than other forces.

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Campaigning in Warboys with Darryl Preston, our Police and Crime Commissioner

We’ve been out campaigning for Darryl across the region as our Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. In the past three years as the incumbent Police and Crime Commissioner Darryl has overseen nearly 400 new officers for Cambridgeshire police, neighbourhood crime is down

Tackling antisocial behaviour with the Grafham litter-pick

It was great to join volunteers in Grafham this weekend as part of their regular litter pick organised by the Parish Council. It's hugely important to ensure villages like Grafham maintain their character and so often that responsibility comes down to self-help.

Ben welcomes Government boost to police funding across Cambridgeshire

Having delivered on their manifesto commitment to recruit 20,000 new police officers, the Conservative Government are making sure the police have the funding they need. That is why next year police forces will receive up to £843 million to better protect the public, so that every officer and commun