End Police Pursuits (EPP)
The #EndPolicePursuits (EPP) campaign is a family-led group that seeks justice for those affected and/or bereaved by police pursuit.
The campaign initially emerged in 2021 when three families came together, facilitated and supported by NPMP, to fight for justice and stand in solidarity together against this form of police violence that continues to harm communities and put the public, particularly working-class and racially minoritised groups and young people, at unnecessary risk.
EPP is now an independent campaign that is open to families and loved ones across the UK. It’s priority demands are:
- To immediately prohibit police initiating pursuits in circumstances involving non-violent offences or minor traffic violations, and for the Authorised Professional Practice guidelines to be revised accordingly.
- We call for the recording and transparent publication of all traffic stop data.
More broadly, the campaign works toward ending the systematic over-policing of racially minoritised and working-class young people by road traffic officers and in policing practice in general.
Greater Manchester policing precept
Fund Communities, Not Policing
The Fund Communities, Not Policing campaign makes the case, every year, that Greater Manchester’s rising police budget should instead be invested in the community infrastructure that keeps people safe and well.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has consistently increased the policing precept on residents’ council tax. In the 2025/26 year, an increase of £13.1million brought Greater Manchester Police’s annual budget to over £900m. Each year, the GMCA’s own public consultation has shown that most respondents oppose the increase. Each year, the Police, Fire and Crime Panel has voted it through regardless.
NPMP has attended the GMCA panel meeting each year to formally oppose the precept increase. In recent years, alongside allied organisations, this has shifted from opposition alone to pairing that objection with a positive vision: publishing a costed briefing, developed in conversation with individuals and community groups from across Greater Manchester, that sets out concrete alternative uses for the money. Its priority demands are:
- To reject the annual policing precept increase and redirect that funding to youth centres, community centres, and other social infrastructure.
- For the GMCA to act on the results of its own public consultations, rather than proceeding with increases the public has opposed.
More broadly, the campaign works toward a Greater Manchester in which public money is invested in the wellbeing of communities and addressing the root causes of harm, rather than in policing and punishment.
Read the 2025/2026 briefing here and the 2024/2025 briefing here.
No Police in Schools (NPIS)
Whilst not currently active, the No Police In Schools (NPIS) campaign was a community campaign led by Kids of Colour and NPMP. The campaign united members through our shared concern over the increasing presence of police, and wider practices of policing, in schools in Greater Manchester and beyond.
The campaign was made up of parents, teachers, young people, youth workers, community members, academics and activists.
Across 2019, we heard reports of issues related to police in schools. In February 2020, we received a response to a Freedom of Information request revealing plans to increase the number of police in schools. In March 2020 we hosted a community meeting on this issue and the campaign began to grow from there.
NPIS conducted research and published a report titled ‘Decriminalise the Classroom’ in August 2020. In 2021, the City of Manchester council decided to reconsider the placement of Schools-based officers in the borough of Manchester.
You can read more about the campaign’s work, its journey and the ‘Decriminalise the Classroom’ report here: https://nopoliceinschools.co.uk/