Claim: Police engagement with communities isn't happening.
Fact-check: Police budgets, numbers and community policing - Full Fact
Verdict: there's evidence from the police watchdog that the capacity for crime prevention work has been declining but also evidence that it improved last year. the number of pcsos decreased by 40% between march 2010 and march 2017.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-05-18T00:00:00