On Friday (20/1), Matthew Barber visited prisoner support charity BACO at the Youth Offending Service Offices in Aylesbury. The visit provided an opportunity for Matthew to find out how £5,000 of funding, awarded via the PCC’s Community Fund, will support BACO to help prevent crime across Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

582 police officers have been recruited in Thames Valley since September 2019, as part of the national Uplift Programme, this brings the total number of officers up to 4,832 by the end of December 2022.

Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, has today (23/1) welcomed over £216,000 of Home Office funding to support the expansion of Operation Deter youth activity in Slough.

I’m pleased to announce the first round of this year’s Community Fund is now open for applications. This is a great opportunity to support community and voluntary groups in reducing crime.

Last week Matthew Barber visited youth education charity One-Eighty at their office in Oxford. The visit provided an opportunity to see first hand how PCC funding will support One-Eighty to provide additional one-to-one sessions with young people, parents and carers.

Partners across Slough are working together with communities and organisations as part of a month of action to tackle violence in all its forms.

The monument, also known as the Knife Angel, is the focal point for activity across the town in January to take a collective stand against violence. The month of action across Slough brings together Thames Valley Police, Slough Borough Council, the Office for the Police and Crime Commissioner and The Safety Centre.