London’s murder rate continues upwards

weaviemx5

Being?

Pacifico

£16 Million pounds a year...

weaviemx5

I reckon you’ve got a typo there.

weaviemx5

https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/b16880/Final Draft Consolidated Budget 201819 Thursday 22-Feb-2018 10.00 London Assembly Mayors Questi.pdf?T=9

Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)

5.7 Keeping Londoners safe is the Mayor’s top priority and from 2019-20 he will invest at least an additional £59 million annually to support an extra 1,000 police officers than would otherwise be affordable by taking an unprecedented step change in the scale of use of income raised from business rates for policing. Given the time lag needed to recruit new officers, £5 million is the maximum additional funds the Metropolitan Police Service (the ‘Met’) can spend on extra officers and recruitment in 2018-19. Work will be done to speed the recruitment process in time for 2019-20.
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5.8 The Mayor is therefore providing £55 million to MOPAC in 2018-19 to reduce their previously planned borrowing for capital projects. This will lead to an annual saving in MOPAC’s capital financing costs of £3.3 million in 2019-20 and future years. This saving will allow on-going support for the Met’s mental health work in 2019-20 and later years. For 2018-19 the Mayor is supporting three additional projects from one-off allocations of retained business rates: £2.1 million for Mental Health, £0.6 million for Violence Against Women and Girls and Female Genital Mutilation campaigns and £0.4 million to fund a new Countering Violent Extremism programme.

                                                                               

I’m no accountant, so feel free to correct me if I’m reading it wrong, but doesn’t that draft budget propose £3.3Bn estimated expenditure for MOPAC 2018-19?  That appears to be a pretty large budget already allocated to it, along with a number of targeted programmes to tackle violent extremism/fgm/mental health.

Pacifico

Nah

Toko Black

Looks like you can't translate data from a table.

the total is £16.3 Billion.

... it's 16,315.5 million with 3,331.5 million allocated to MOPAC = £3.3 billion.

springtide

Again you are demonstrating your lack of knowledge of what is needed in the long term and this project would indirectly help build communities.

Maybe you should read up in the recommendations that the Glasgow team have provided the government.

But regardless if it didn’t, London is still no different to any other city in terms of offering it’s residents events.

Are you also calling for Bristol to cancel the Harbour Festival weekend at the cost of £160k to its residents?  I do hope not.

Pacifico

Meanwhile people are dying on the streets in part to a lack of resources by the police. A lack of Resources that the mayor has available today to ameliorate.

Pardon me if I would like to see people stop being stabbed today.

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Dunno - is the Mayor of Bristol saying that its a lack of resources for the police that is leading to so many killings?

Pacifico

weaviemx5

The budget shows that there is £3.3Bn allocated to MOPAC and the summary shows that the maximum amount that can be allocated to fund new Police by the Mayor (£5m) already is;

"Given the time lag needed to recruit new officers, £5 million is the maximum additional funds the Metropolitan Police Service (the ‘Met’) can spend on extra officers and recruitment in 2018-19. Work will be done to speed the recruitment process in time for 2019-20."