Ms Cooper is also expected to announce a “neighborhood policing guarantee” within weeks, as well as more funding amid concerns from police chiefs that they could be left short due to the costs of increasing employers’ National Insurance contributions and of a salary increase of 4.75% for officers.

It is believed that around £50 million will go to The Metropolitan Policewhich is set to receive a total of £3.5bn in 2024-25, an increase of 3.5%.

However, the extra cash is unlikely to plug the hole in the Met’s finances. It is understood that in the next two years the force faces a shortage of up to £350 million.

Ms Cooper will say the Government will provide an extra 13,000 neighborhood police and PCSOs and work with the College of Policing to support the launch of a new specialist training program for neighborhood policing.

In an article for The Telegraph, Emily Spurrell, chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said the force needed to do more to prevent crime. She said the Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) were key to making this happen by bringing different agencies together with the police.

“As the PCC, we have the necessary relationships and convening power to co-ordinate and deliver effective local services to prevent crime, rehabilitate offenders and, importantly, support victims,” ​​she said.

We have to do things differently

By Emily Spurrell, Chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners