The Mayor of London made the pledge alongside shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper while out on patrol with officers from the Metropolitan Police in Earlsfield.
Read more:Sadiq Khan has unveiled a new election pledge to put roughly 1,300 extra neighbourhood police officers, PCSOs and special constables on the streets of London.
'I'm delighted to announce that working with a new Labour government I'd put around an extra 1,300 police and community support officers on the beat in London. 'Under this Tory Government an unprecedented squeeze on Met resources has meant neighbourhood policing has disappeared from too many communities. Our hard-working officers have simply been stretched too thin.
Labour said that the additional officers 'would considerably increase the Met's ability to bear down on crime and would provide a significant boost to neighbourhood policing' in the wake of the Casey review finding the capital 'no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service'. 'But across the country after 14 years of Conservative Government neighbourhood policing has been heavily cut back. That's why Sadiq's plan to rebuild neighbourhood policing in the capital is so important - getting policing back into communities and rebuilding confidence.
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