As of 31st March this year the Force now has 5,120 police officers, more than 600 higher than in 2010 and 20% more than when the national uplift programme started in 2019.

I’ve listened to residents from across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes and I’m offering a clear plan for common sense policing. 

I am the only candidate at this election running a positive campaign with a clear plan to deliver safer communities for the people of Thames Valley. 

Thames Valley Police’s Rural Crime Taskforce will be expanded with the recruitment of an additional 10 officers to the team.

The Drive Partnership’s flagship perpetrator intervention for high-harm, high-risk, and serial perpetrators of domestic abuse is now live across the Thames Valley; with partner launch events taking place this week in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire.

Last week, Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber, attended a digital support clinic run by Age UK Oxfordshire to see how £10,000 of funding from his Community Fund is helping older people get online safely and confidently.

A man who threatened members of the public with a bladed article in Chipping Norton has been jailed for more than two years and given a Serious Violence Reduction Order (SVRO).