British police adding hundreds of officers on the streets after Sarah Everard case

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick alongside police officers during a walkabout in Westminster, London. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA

Hundreds of police officers will be added to London’s streets over the next six months in a bid to make women and girls feel safer, the UK's Metropolitan Police has said.

The force has announced an additional 650 officers will be put in place across the capital, with 500 officers being based permanently in busy neighbourhoods and 150 joining London wards as “Bobbies on the beat”.