Cost Of Policing To Rise

Willy Bach

People across Harborough will pay more for Policing, after the rise was approved today.

The increase of 4.48% means Band D council tax payers across the District will pay £10 more a year from April.

Police and Crime Commisioner, Lord Willy Bach, says it will help fund the recruitment an additional 100 officers across Leicestershire, taking the number to just over 2,000 by next March, and 20 more Community Support Officers.

This is in addition to the 89 expected to be delivered as part of year one of the Government’s 20,000 officer uplift programme.

Lord Bach says that local people wanted to see more proactive local policing in their communities and he was committed to delivering that in every corner of the county.

“People want community-based policing, providing solutions to the problems that they face in their neighbourhoods.  They want to know their neighbourhood officers,” he said. “And that is what they are going to get.”

The net budget requirement for 2020-21 is £199.863m, which necessitates a council tax (precept) requirement of £76.829m for the year.

How the Policing part of your Council Tax Bill will change: