Mayor wants ‘bobbies on beat’

LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson said yesterday that he is “obsessed” with getting more police officers on the street in the wake of the riots that rocked the capital last week.

Johnson told the Murnaghan programme on Sky News: “The case I make to the Government, and I’m going to continue to make, is that numbers matter, and I think that the numbers we have got on the streets in London now, they’re up on when I came in (as mayor).

“But it’s vital that we keep them high and that we keep public confidence. People need to see police on the streets out there.”