London Tories unveil plan to invest £104m in new Violent Crime Emergency Fund
Today we launch our plan for £104 million Violent Crime Emergency Fund to put 1598 extra police on London's streets. That's ON TOP of London's share of the 20,000 extra Police coming from the Government.
Our plan would cut the millions extra the Labour Mayor has spent on staff, City Hall waste and TfL perks and instead invest in a new fund designed to tackle London’s crime epidemic.
As part of the Mayor’s budget process, GLA Conservatives Leader Susan Hall has produced a fully costed plan which would see £104 million spent on tackling violent crime. This investment would be paid for by reversing Sadiq Khan’s decision to spend millions more on staff, bureaucracy and extortionate TfL perks.
The £104 million Violent Crime Emergency Fund would be 20 times the size of the Labour Mayor’s core contribution to the Violence Reduction Unit and could be used to put an additional 1598 police officers on the streets or improve crime prevention programme
Sadiq Khan will have the opportunity to accept or reject this plan over the coming weeks.
GLA Conservative Leader Susan Hall AM said:
“Politics is all about choices, and there can be no doubt that this Mayor has consistently and shamelessly chosen to spend taxpayers’ cash on City Hall waste and frivolous vanity projects instead of keeping our city safe.”
We need a can-do Mayor of London to match the energy of our great city. Labour's tired Mayor Khan is full of excuses, while London's Conservatives have the ideas to tackle London's problems.
You can find more details of our Violent Crime Emergency Fund on our GLA Conservatives news page.