Funding: The service has reached tipping point, say chiefs

23rd June 2017Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight 1 Comment

Since 2010, the police service in England and Wales has been cut by nearly 20 per cent. In a typical ‘can do’ response, chief officers recognised the need to tighten the purse strings and, on the whole, responded gamely to austerity by accepting there were efficiency savings to be had in their force areas. However, in the face of continuing cuts and uncertainty over the police funding formula, against a backdrop of successive terror attacks, the language from the top has undoubtedly changed. Now the talk is of ‘tipping points’ and ‘cracks’ appearing in our police service.

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