article_snippet.sent: Miliband today pledged to protect the jobs of 10,000 police officers as Labour claimed Tory cuts had allowed rapists and violent criminals to go free.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband said the bobby on the beat is 'at risk of disappearing', while rising numbers of serious criminals 'are being let off the hook'.
article_snippet.sent: Milibandsaid the bobby on the beat the beat is 'at risk of disappearing', while rising numbers of serious criminals 'are being let off the hook' Miliband hopes to get back on the front foot today with the promise of action to protect community policing.
article_snippet.sent: Today Labour claims the police are 'struggling to keep up' with the rise in child sexual exploitation, terrorism and online crime while public safety is being 'put at risk' by a chaotic prison and probation system.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband said: 'Because of the Conservatives' decisions, neighbourhood policing - the foundation of good British policing - is at risk of disappearing, whilst increasing numbers of serious criminals are being let off the hook. '
article_snippet.sent: shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper claimed the Tories were planning deeper cuts to policing in the next Parliament 'even though the police are already struggling to keep up with rising complex cases' New laws would introduce a local policing commitment that required forces to guarantee neighbourhood policing and 10,000 officers would be safeguarded for three years, the Tories said.
article_snippet.sent: It is not credible to say you can take away resources on the scale the Government are talking about without wiping out neighbourhood policing.
article_snippet.sent: Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'Under the Tories we've seen fewer police on the beat, longer waits for 999 calls and less justice for victims as there have been fewer arrests and prosecutions for rising crimes like violence, rape or child sex offences. '
article_snippet.sent: Now they plan deeper cuts to policing in the next Parliament even though the police are already struggling to keep up with rising complex cases such as child sexual exploitation, terrorism or online crime.'
article_snippet.sent: Tory Home Secretary Theresa May added: 'These are the same tired, unfunded promises from a Labour party who tied up the police with red tape and central targets, and who have opposed everything we have done to help the police do more with less. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Miliband warns cuts mean rapists and violent criminals have gone free .
  