New Monthly Series – Police Numbers

This is the first of a new monthly series charting Labour’s progress towards election or coalition promises. I plan to have a number of these in areas such as housing, police, light rail and forestry.

The black line shows the promise of 1,800 extra police officers in three years and what a linear trend towards it would be. The red line is the actual they have managed. With just a year to go they are 1,000 short of their promise and 400 below what you would expect to be on target.