Police Cuts

Foreign Police Chiefs Could Head Up British Forces

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK Politics

Foreign police chiefs will be able to run British forces for the first time under radical reforms set to be unveiled next week. Home Secretary Ther...

'It's Like Losing The Crown Jewels'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK

New Scotland Yard's headquarters are being sold off to save money, the Metropolitan Police has announced, as the force faces making cuts of more than ...

Learning lessons from Hillsborough and Orgreave

Vera Baird QC | Posted 22.12.2012 | UK Politics
Vera Baird QC

The other side of the police has been exposed by the shocking revelations about Hillsborough, both in failing to prevent a disaster waiting to happen and later dishonestly concealing the truth.

'Pc Pleb And Proud'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.09.2012 | UK

Police officers have gathered outside Andrew Mitchell's constituency office wearing T-shirts with the slogan "PC Pleb and Proud". Accusing the Pri...

County Police Unable To Investigate 40% Of Crime Due To Cuts

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.08.2012 | UK

Criminal damage, thefts from cars and burglaries were not investigated by police after cuts to a force's budget, it has been reported. Devon and Co...

Police Numbers At Lowest In Nine Years

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.07.2012 | UK

The number of police officers in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level in nine years, figures showed on Thursday. There were 134,101 off...

Police Cuts Will Take 6,000 Cops Off The Beat, Report Claims

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK

Nearly 6,000 fewer police will be on the streets in the three years' time as the government's budget cuts take hold, it has been revealed. Nationwi...

Theresa May Heckled At Police Conference Amid Broad Cuts To Service

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.05.2012 | UK Politics

The Home Secretary was heckled on Wednesday as she told rank-and-file officers that changes to their pay and conditions were reforms which hard-workin...

Labour Cry Foul Over 999 Responder Staff 'Cuts'

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2012 | UK Politics

Labour has accused the coalition of overseeing a "shocking" 5,000 cut in police dealing with 999 emergencies. Figures released under freedom of inf...

Heading for a Catastrophe

Paul McKeever | Posted 07.05.2012 | UK Politics
Paul McKeever

The privatisation of the police service will have a detrimental effect on public safety and the level of service they expect and deserve from us. I don't say this lightly, I am genuinely outraged by what is happening to the greatest police service in the world.

'Dramatic' Cuts In Police Will Make Immediate Impact On Service, Say Officers

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK

Catastrophic cuts in police numbers mean that rank and file officiers are unable to do their jobs effectively, the Police Federation has said. The ...

Police Chief Warns Force On 'Cliff Edge' After Budget Cuts

Huffington Post UK/PA | Felicity Morse | Posted 26.01.2012 | UK

Senior police chief Tony Melville, from Gloucestershire Police, has spoken out to warn that cuts to his force's budget will put them on a "metaphorica...

Police Cuts Have Already Resulted In 3,000 Redundancies, Unison Claims

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK

More than seven times as many police officers were made redundant in 2010-11 as cuts to police budgets started to impact on staff numbers, according t...

New Met Chief Gives Evidence On Riots Alongside 'US Supercop'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 11.12.2011 | UK Politics

Bernard Hogan-Howe, the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has said he is "open minded" about transferring responsibility for counter-terror...

Police Cutbacks 'Playing Fast And Loose With Public's Safety'

PA | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK Politics

The Government is "playing fast and loose" with the public's safety by cutting police numbers, the chairman of the federation which rep...

Bad News For Cameron: A Third Say The Government's Riot Response Is Badly Thought Through

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 18.10.2011 | UK Politics

A third of Britons believe the government's response to the riots has been too hasty, a new poll by YouGov has find. And the vast majority - 70% - ...

Boris Johnson 'Obsessed' With Putting More Police Officers On The Streets

PA | Posted 14.10.2011 | UK Politics

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- London Mayor Boris Johnson says that he is "obsessed" with getting more police officers on the street in the wake of the riots t...

London Riots - If we Don’t Recognise our City, Then we Haven’t Been Looking in the Right Places

Jennette Arnold | Posted 14.10.2011 | UK Politics
Jennette Arnold

A week after the turmoil in London and other UK cities, attention is turning away from the immediate issues of dealing with criminal behaviour towards the action needed to address the wider causes.

Chris Wimpress

UK Riots Lead To Rethink In Tory Crime Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Wimpress | Posted 11.10.2011 | UK Politics

The prime minister has signalled a major shift in emphasis on crime policy in the wake of the riots which have affected parts of England in the past w...

Police Reform Talks End In 'Anger And Disappointment' For Officers

The Huffington Post | Michael Rundle | Posted 25.09.2011 | UK

Negotiations over police cuts between officials and police staff ended in failure on Tuesday, with officers claiming that government reforms were bein...

Michael Rundle

Police Cuts Will Set Forces 'Back By A Decade'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 20.09.2011 | UK

The 34,000 police jobs that will be lost due to police budget cuts by 2015 will set policing "by up to a decade", says a senior former police constabl...

Report: 34,000 Police Jobs Will Be Cut As Budgets Tighten

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 20.09.2011 | UK

More than 34,000 police jobs will be lost due to police budget cuts, inspectors have said in a report. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary s...

Police Claim Cuts Could Fuel Crime

Posted 11.09.2011 | UK Politics

PRESS ASSOCIATION --- Thousands of police officers are to call on the Government to come to the negotiating table as they join a day of action against...

Michael Rundle

Police Prepare To Rally Against Cuts As Pay Freeze Looms

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 02.09.2011 | UK Politics

On July 13 the Police Federation of England and Wales, the organisation which represents rank and file officers, will be holding a meeting at Westmins...