theywanttobeelected: the manifestos BETA(i.p.): More Police Archives

Safer Communities and More Police Put more police on the streets and they'll catch more criminals. it's not rocket science, is it?	Add Comments(0)
Ensuring order is the first priority of government. Crime blights lives and ruins communities: it should not be excused, but condemned and punished. That means drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong, and restoring respect, discipline and decent values.	Add Comments(0)
Crime today is out of control. There is a gun crime every hour. A million violent crimes are committed each year. Fewer than one in four crimes are now cleared up.	Add Comments(0)
Criminals have a better chance of getting away with breaking the law today than at any time in the last 25 years.	Add Comments(0)
Anti-social behaviour – vandalism, graffiti, binge-drinking, threatening behaviour – is a growing concern in all our communities.	Add Comments(0)
Too many of Mr Blair’s responses have been gimmicks, some of which, like marching yobs to cash machines, were never even introduced.	Add Comments(0)
It doesn’t have to be that way. Crime can be cut. Anti-social behaviour can be confronted. Communities can and should be made safe for the law-abiding. It requires active community policing and a relentless focus on catching, convicting and punishing criminals.	Add Comments(0)
Labour’s centralised control of the police has sapped officers’ morale, increased bureaucracy and undermined public confidence.	Add Comments(0)
It is time to change direction. We will recruit 5,000 new police officers each year, radically cut paperwork and introduce genuine local accountability, through elected police commissioners.	Add Comments(0)
Giving local people a say over police priorities will lead to genuine neighbourhood policing with officers based in the locality clearly focused on zero tolerance.	Add Comments(0)
Our society needs more respect, discipline and decent values. Crime is wrong and should be punished, not excused	Add Comments(0)
When criminals are caught they should be punished properly. If appropriate they should be sent to prison, and in any event encouraged to reform their ways. None of these things happens properly today. So, we will end Labour’s early release from prison scheme and provide 20,000 extra prison places.	Add Comments(0)
There is much that can be done to improve the justice system – the police, courts and the prison and probation services. But they only pick up the pieces of problems whose roots often lie elsewhere.	Add Comments(0)
We will start at school by ensuring proper discipline.	Add Comments(0)
We will break the link between drugs and crime by massively expanding treatment programmes, including 25,000 residential rehab places (compared with fewer than 2,500 places today), and by giving all young users of hard drugs a straight choice – effective treatment or appearing in court. We will stop sending mixed messages on drugs by reversing Labour’s reclassification of cannabis as a less serious drug, changing it from class ‘C’ back to class ‘B’.	Add Comments(0)
We will support the social institutions – families, schools, voluntary bodies and youth clubs – that can prevent crime and drug dependency before it starts.	Add Comments(0)
A Conservative Government will place the highest possible priority on combating the threat from terrorism. This requires a coordinated response right across government, including funding for the intelligence services, training for the emergency services, robust anti-terror laws, controlled immigration and rigorous arrangements for the extradition and deportation of terrorist suspects. That’s why we will appoint a Homeland Security Minister to co-ordinate our national response.	Add Comments(0)
More Police 5,000 extra police a year Less paperwork and political correctness More rehab places for addicts Tougher sentences for career criminals Prisoners to serve their sentences in full	Add Comments(0)