• Every community will have named, and contactable, officers dedicated to tackling the issues facing their communities.
• Guaranteed response times to neighbourhood queries from communities and businesses of 72 hours. There will be a clear process in place for the public to seek recourse if this response time is not met.
• Local communities and businesses will also have ongoing opportunities to engage with neighbourhood teams and raise local concerns and priorities through regular local beat meetings.
• Information about your neighbourhood policing teams local priorities and how local communities and businesses can feed into them will be displayed online and kept up to date.
• Every force will have an ASB lead, who will be starting to develop an ASB action plan addressing the local issues faced in communities and town centres.
• Forces will have increased patrols in town centres and other hotspots based on local demand and intelligence, tackling key local issues such as anti-social behaviour, shop theft and vandalism and giving the enhanced visibility and presence that our high streets have been crying out for.
• 3,000 more officers, PCSOs and special constables by 31 March 2026 providing a visible and engaging police presence, building relationships with local communities and working together to problem solve.
• Started the national roll out of the College of Policing’s Neighbourhood Policing Pathway, providing specialist training to police officers and PCSOs, with the first part of this training being launched in June.
• Every force will ensure that neighbourhood teams spend the majority of their time in their communities providing visible patrols and engaging with local communities and businesses.

By the end of Parliament (2029):

• 13,000 additional police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles across England and Wales.  Neighbourhood policing areas will consist of a team of officers and PCSOs dedicated to covering that area.
• We will have worked with forces to define and implement neighbourhood areas to ensure they are a size that makes sense locally and are recognisable to local communities. We will expect neighbourhoods to be linked to council wards, but we will work with police forces and local councils to define and implement neighbourhood areas that make sense locally, are recognisable to local communities and workable for forces.
• Neighbourhood policing performance framework with published online metrics of police performance enabling the public to hold their force to account, including on abstraction rates, visible police presence and town centre crimes solved.
• Specialised and effective neighbourhood officers – every neighbourhood police officer and PCSO to complete enhanced additional training under the Neighbourhood Policing pathway, covering themes such as community engagement, problem solving and tackling ASB.
• New national standards in place so that neighbourhood officers are not routinely abstracted to other areas, ensuring they are protected to be present and visible.
• New public contact approaches, adopting new technology to facilitate more interactive engagement between neighbourhood officers and communities.
• Neighbourhood team patrolling in every local area

Other changes introduced in the Crime and Policing Bill include new Orders to protect domestic abuse victims and tackle antisocial behaviour, ending the Conservative’s ban on investigating shoplifting values below £200, new offences on assaulting retail workers, spiking, taking of intimate images, child criminal exploitation, and ‘cuckooing’ – along with banning electronic devices used in vehicle theft and AI models used to produce child sexual abuse material.

Find the Neighbourhood policing grant allocations and projections: 2025 to 2026 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neighbourhood-policing-grant-allocations-and-projections-2025-to-2026

Read the Home Secretary’s letter to police and crime commissioners and chief constables on the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-secretary-letter-on-the-neighbourhood-policing-guarantee/letter-from-the-home-secretary-to-police-and-crime-commissioners-and-chief-constables-on-the-neighbourhood-policing-guarantee-accessible

Read more on the announcement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-detail-announced-on-the-neighbourhood-policing-guarantee