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BigJohnsPens

BigJohnsPens

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How come we have less police in our area than most areas yet our crime rate including knife crime is one of the highest in the country?
Should be an inquiry about this and the media should get behind it demanding more resources.
 
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Conservative Government Cuts on Police Spending and impacts since 2010:
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Performance Tracker 2019 | Institute for Government

Performance Tracker 2019 projects the demand and spending on nine public services for the next five years.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

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A 7.9% real-terms increase in police spending would be a notable change of pace compared with the recent trajectory of spending in this area; if that recent trajectory were instead to continue, police spending would end up 0.8% lower in real terms by 2023/24 than it was in 2018/19. An increase of 7.9% would be more than enough – by some £700m – to meet demand should it rise at the same rate as population growth.

However, if demand rises in line with recent growth in police-recorded crime rates, the government would need to spend an extra £3.1bn on top of what is implied by current policy. If it chose not to provide additional funding, police forces would need to find ways to become more efficient if they are to continue providing the same scope and quality of service.

There is little scope to make further cuts to staff costs, though, and since it may be hard to get police officers and staff to do even more than they already are, it seems unlikely that forces could increase efficiency as much as would be needed if demand rises at this faster rate, and if no further funding was forthcoming.

Forces have managed to do more with less in the past few years, but this was mainly achieved through restricting pay rises. The pay cap has now been lifted and there are no indications that it will be applied again, given growing dissatisfaction with pay and working conditions, and the growth in the rate at which police officers are leaving – from 4.7% to 7.1% between 2009/10 and 2018/19.

Although there is potential for some efficiencies in areas like procurement, it is unlikely these would be sufficient to meet demand. The government aims to achieve £100m in procurement savings cumulatively over the next three years, far short of what might be needed if demand rises in line with crime.



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Town resources with city problems.
Drugs, knife crime, violent crime, gun crime which are all on the rise.
Pcc’s have politicized policing and are more interested in ticking equality boxes than fighting crime.
Cleveland police never had a drugs team for the last 3 or 4 years.
Recruiting has gone to **** since it all changed and they’re after academics, majority of which can’t talk to people and are frightened of their own shadow.
When you want a soft touch police then it bites you on the ****.
Ever since the stop search powers got binned to appease people in London then Tom d*ck or Harry carries whatever he pleases. Drugs, machetes, ammonia, guns.
 
Facefuzz said:
Town resources with city problems.
Drugs, knife crime, violent crime, gun crime which are all on the rise.
Pcc’s have politicized policing and are more interested in ticking equality boxes than fighting crime.
Cleveland police never had a drugs team for the last 3 or 4 years.
Recruiting has gone to **** since it all changed and they’re after academics, majority of which can’t talk to people and are frightened of their own shadow.
When you want a soft touch police then it bites you on the ****.
Ever since the stop search powers got binned to appease people in London then Tom d*ck or Harry carries whatever he pleases. Drugs, machetes, ammonia, guns.
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This exactly. 👍👍👍
 
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