Setting policing priorities

Mayor of London Boris  Johnson is responsible for setting London’s policing priorities. He and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Kit Malthouse, will hold the Met commissioner to account and ensure the Police target crimes that concern Londoners including:

• strengthening the Met’s response to serious youth violence including knife crime
• ensuring London has enough frontline police officers on the streets
• targeting robbery, burglary and drug dealing in every borough
• getting tough on gangs and tackling re-offending rates