Dame Cressida Dick said the Met would do more to “divert young people away from crime wherever we can” while outlining plans to stop children and teenagers getting caught up in violent crime and county lines drugs gangs.
Writing in the Evening Standard, the commissioner also said she would reduce the number of vulnerable young people affected by knife crime and sexual exploitation.
Scotland Yard will “increase the number of dedicated police officers in schools and pupil referral units across London to 600, to reassure and support young people” during 2020, the commissioner said.
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