Three-year cash boost for policing in London

£10 billion per year will be going into policing for the fight against crime by 2010/11, the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has said. The Home Secretary has announced the police funding settlement for the three years from 2008/09, to give police authorities the certainty on which to plan for the future. Police forces across England and Wales are to benefit from an increase in Government funding of 2.9% in 2008/09, with a total revenue grant of £9,227m. The general grant funding base level will be set at 2.5% for the next three years so that each police authority in England and Wales is guaranteed an increase of at least this level in each year. Funding for neighbourhood policing will increase by an average of 2.7% each year.