Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley pledges an increased focus on community policing during a speech on Tuesday. 

Rowley made a speech at the Institution of Technology and Engineering in front of Londoners, police officers, and stake holders to lay out his intended future of policing across the capital. 

His three-part plan included 20 headlines measures to achieve his mantra of "More Trust, Less Crime, High Standards"; an increased focus upon integrity, professionalism, compassion, courage, and respect; and nine priorities on how to deliver community crime fighting. 

Rowley said in his speech: "We will have the strongest ever neighbourhood policing. Community policing is the Met's foundation – we are a local police service. 

"To make our service to our communities as strong as possible requires visible policing in neighbourhoods and strong collaboration between police, communities and partners. 

"We know how much people value their local officers and PCSOs and we want to maximise the impact those relationships can have – but around three in four people don't even know how to contact their local teams right now. We will put that right. 

"We will overhaul the current neighbourhood policing model, becoming more visible, more engaged and more responsive to local crime and anti-social behaviour – precisely targeting priorities identified with local people. 

"We will invest in more local officers and additional PCSOs to create stronger teams who really know what matters to their communities, reduce local crime, and can build strong, trusted, local partnerships to fix local problems." 

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Rowley also detailed that he would look to target men who look to "perpetuate violence" against women and children. 

He said: "I'll expand on our work closing in on tens of thousands of men who predate on women and children later on. 

"Too many men in our city use violence to instil fear, to exploit for sexual purposes or for financial gain. 

"Too often their victims are women and children, often these men create such fear they can act with impunity – seeming to be untouchable."