The pledge came as the party set out further details of its “Policing Plan”, which includes proposals to recruit 10,000 new police officers and treble the use of stop-and-search powers set out at this month’s party conference.

The Tories’ plan would also give the home secretary more powers to set “binding operational priorities” for police forces, focusing them on “real crime”.

This would replace the current system where the home secretary can only intervene if a force is “failing”, which the Conservatives said was “just not good enough”.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: “Every day, victims are told there’s nothing police can do while criminals walk free.

“That failure corrodes public trust and weakens the rule of law.

“Keir Starmer does not have the backbone to take the diffic

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