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Sadiq Khan has been blasted for taking millions more pounds from his policing budget to hire more pen-pushers while failing to cut violent crime.
New figures show the number of back-office staff working on finance, research and local projects has almost doubled on the Labour mayor's watch.
Just before he came to power in 2016, there were 113 members of staff in the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), costing taxpayers £7.8m a year.
But new figures seen by the Mail reveal that by the end of March 2023, the payroll had gone up to 205 employees - at a cost of £17.5m.
Yet crime has soared in the capital over the same period.
Sadiq Khan has been blasted for taking millions more pounds from his policing budget to hire more pen-pushers while failing to cut violent crime
Susan Hall, Conservative challenger for City Hall at next month's election said crime has soared in London
Office for National Statistics figures show the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) recorded 738,501 total offences including 185,675 of violence against the person in the year to March 2016.
By March last year total offences had soared by 19 per cent to reach 880,284 while violence against the person was 30 per cent higher at 240,924.
Last night Susan Hall, Mr
