{"id":391116,"date":"2026-01-26T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:08:09","slug":"mahmood-to-call-for-more-police-patrols-and-faster-responses-to-999-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391116\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmood to call for more police patrols and faster responses to 999 calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Max Wilkinson said the government &#8220;must deliver&#8221; on its promises and &#8220;get more officers back onto our streets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reform plans would see police forces required to respond to emergencies in urban areas within 15 minutes, and within 20 minutes in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most forces already have response targets, but the Home Office said there was currently no way of holding them accountable if they do not meet that standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Failure to reach targets would see the home secretary sending in experts from high performing forces to help improve response times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Hayward-Cripps, chief executive of Neighbourhood Watch, said the new targets would be a &#8220;welcome step forward&#8221; towards the &#8220;basic expectation that police will respond when you report a crime&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mahmood will also say she wants to change how staffing levels are funded amid concern the current<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c301zj60dnno\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8216;officer maintenance grant&#8217; encourages <\/a>some forces to employ uniformed officers in administrative roles such as IT or human resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Max Wilkinson said the government &#8220;must deliver&#8221; on its promises and &#8220;get more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}