Boris Johnson has launched a new police locator to ask the public where officers are most in demand.

The locator is on the Conservative website and has been shared on Tory social media pages, so if you don’t follow them you might have missed it.

It asks you for your name and postcode to ‘let Boris know’ where you want the officers.

Your data is then processed by the Conservative Party, and the next page tells you to share it with a friend ‘so they can let Boris know as well’.

Mr Johnson vowed to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers to ‘make our streets safer’ during his first speech outside 10 Downing Street.

However, under the Conservative and coalition governments, the number of frontline officers fell by about 20,000 officers, so Mr Johnson’s new pledge will in effect reverse those cuts.

The prime minister said the recruitment drive will begin in September and he wants it completed over the next three years.

Also on the agenda are pilot schemes which make it easier for officers to carry out stop-and-search operations.

Seven forces have been trialling new changes that give officers the right to stop and search if they only believe serious violence ‘may’ occur.

Downing Street has said the pilot schemes would be reviewed with a view to rolling them out across all forces.

Mr Johnson and newly-appointed Home Secretary, Priti Patel, have also set out plans for a new national policing board.

The panel will be chaired by Ms Patel and bring together key police leaders, holding them to account for meeting the 20,000 officers target and working on a national response to other issues.

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