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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Labour is pledging to put more police on the streets in a bid to tackle rising street crime, which they say has gone up under the Tories. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said her party is planning to get police officers into every community after a “decade of dereliction on law and order” under the Tories. Sir Keir Starmer’s party has previously pledged to put 13,000 neighbourhood police and PCSOs back on the beat across the country, with guaranteed neighbourhood patrols. Cooper said: “We will get police back out in the community with the powers they need, not just s…

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