The Liberal Democrats - Cut Crime: 10,000 more police means a longer arm for the law

10,000 more police officers on the beat would lead to more than 90,000 more arrests each year, according to research by the Liberal Democrats.

The party has today published figures showing where the extra officers, funded by the £1bn saving from scrapping the ID card scheme, would be stationed across the UK.
The figures, contained in annual reports, also show that:

• Officers in England and Wales made an average of 10.3 arrests each last year. If the new officers put on the street by the Liberal Democrats made the same, there would be an additional 92,352 arrests each year.
• Officers in England and Wales cleared up an average of 9 crimes each last year. If the new officers did the same, an extra 82,265 crimes would be solved each year.

Commenting, Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg said:
"10,000 more police on the street would mean a longer arm for the law.
"Labour has shown us their tough talk on crime act has not worked, criminalising our young and packing our prisons, while crime doubled under the last the Tory Government. 
"We have to take action to combat knife and youth crime. By providing every region with more officers we can focus on crime hot-spots, have higher visibility policing and instigate more intelligence led operations.
"The Liberal Democrats are the only party who wants to catch more criminals by putting more police on the street."
For a full breakdown of the numbers by region, click here.

caption: Nick Clegg and PC Erskine