Sutton and Cheam Labour Party Sutton and Cheam Constituency Labour Party, London Borough of Sutton
Safer Communities – take part in Labour’s Crime Survey here
Nothing is more important than keeping you, your family and your neighbourhood safe. We want to hear about safety in your area, what your priorities are and how you think they should be tackled. Take part in our national survey here.
The Conservatives cut our police to the lowest level in a generation and cut funding for services that prevent crime from happening.
These decisions helped cause a surge in antisocial behaviour, leaving people afraid in their own communities. Drug use has risen and criminal gangs are exploiting kids to send drugs around the country. And there is huge concern about violent crime.
It shouldn’t be like this – and it doesn’t have to be.
Labour would make your streets safer. Our priorities are to drive down crime and antisocial behaviour, tackle the root causes of the problems that communities face and ensure criminals are brought to justice.
We’d put more police on the beat in our communities and we’d ensure provision of youth clubs and treatment services. We’ll put victims of crime first, starting by strengthening their rights in law.
It says a lot about Boris Johnson’s priorities that he’s currently planning to waste hundreds of millions of pounds on a flashy new national yacht to promote the Tory government overseas. It is a vanity project that won’t do anything to address people’s everyday concerns.
Labour would make different choices. We would scrap the government’s flashy new yacht and spend the money on fighting crime in our communities.
Before becoming leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer was the most senior prosecutor in the country. It was his job to get criminals off the streets and give victims the justice they deserve. That’s the job of the Prime Minister, too, and Keir Starmer will act where Boris Johnson has failed.
You can read about our local policies toward safer communities and the Mayor of London’s Manifesto and our local Manifesto here.