The Home Secretary has announced that North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PCC) will receive an additional £1.4 million to tackle neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls, and anti-social behaviour.
The funding comes from the latest round of the Safer Streets Fund, worth £60 million nationally, which will run for 18 months over the current and next financial year, and on top of the £2 million already distributed across North Yorkshire over the previous rounds since its launch in 2020.
This funding has gone towards projects including CCTV installations, stalking advocacy workshops, training for night-time economy staff and street harassment awareness training.
It will be up to North Yorkshire’s PCC, Zoë Metcalfe, to determine where this funding can best be utilised, with delegation to local commissioners ensuring that it can be directed to where it will be most effective.
This latest round of the Safer Streets Fund comes on the back of a confirmed total police funding settlement of £17.2 billion for 2023-24, an increase of over £300 million since last year. One beneficiary is the Police Uplift Programme, meaning the Government has delivered on its commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers across the country.
