Police chiefs have warned Yvette Cooper about severe cuts to frontline officers and staff because of a £300 million funding shortfall. The Telegraph has the story.
Ten forces have written to the Home Secretary predicting that they will be more than £300 million short in the police funding settlement due to be announced this week, forcing major reductions to frontline officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) and staff numbers next year.
The chief constables and police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are seeking talks with ministers about the scale of the cuts, with one force alone warning it would have to axe more than 200 police officer posts and half of its PCSOs to balance the books.
The ten forces include Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk but others have also warned they too face reductions.
The Telegraph revealed last week that the Metropolitan Police force is braced for reductions of up to 2,300 officers out of a force of 34,000 as well as 400 civilian staff, because of a potential £450 million budget shortfall. Specialist crime-fighting units like the Flying Squad face cuts of a fifth.
It comes after the Prime Minister announced plans last week to put 13,000 additional officers, PCSOs and special constables on the beat across England and Wales. …
Ms. Cooper announced last month that the core grant for the 43 forces in England and Wales would rise by more than £260 million in 2025/26, but policing leaders claim that won’t be enough to cover an above-inflation police pay award and a growing wage bill.
The police chiefs have calculated that they would need an extra £331 million next year just to fund the latest 4.75% police pay award. They also say no allowance has been made for the rising pay of the 46,000 officers hired since 2019 when the last Government funded 20,000 new officers.
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RFK Jr has been badly tarnished over the Israel-Gaza conflict/genocide. Like most frontrunners in the Presidential elections, they are at odds with the vast majority of people who just want the conflict to be stopped.
On another note, I just don’t get that the clearly senile Biden is even considered as a serious candidate. Is he really just held together with sellotape, string and drugs?
The ‘vast majority’ – an abstraction without a quantity.
He is also badly tarnished by his environmental b0££0cks
Added to which, RFK Jr is on the wrong side with the climate nonsense.
In recent years, it’s become clear that some polls are widely inaccurate and/or disingenuously tweaking the results to nudge the narrative. Caveat emptor.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wef-davos-2024-world-falling-apart-show-must-go-on/5846274
Davos kicks off today.
Introduction: Davos24. The WEF Agenda
As these lines go to print, some 3000 invited guests will flock to the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, from 15 to 19 January. Some 60+ heads of state and many “dignitaries” – most without dignity – wannabe leaders of one kind or another, corporate CEOs, are expected.
It is a meeting of a globalist cartel of unelected “leaders”, who give themselves the right to attempt deciding the future of the world.
This little jamboree should produce some interesting reading over the next few days.
Fifty-four years these barstewards have been plotting.
Jeffrey Epstein used to be a regular attendee. I’m sure they will miss his after parties.
Go on Putin you know the coordinates, do the world a favour – just one Kinzhal missile is all it would take.
Don’t waste more lives and time on Ukraine – after all most of the bastards that started it are here :-
46.8027 degrees North : 9.8360 East.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bypassing-parliament-westminster-royal-prerogative-bombing-yemen/5846433
Bombing Yemen but bypassing Parliament.
When it suits the rule of law means diddly squat, a point I have made countless times on DS.
Royal Prerogative means by Constitution Parliament is excluded. Only the monarch can declare war, for example, Parliament doesn’t have to bother itself to turn up, like it didn’t to listen to Andrew Bridgen tell them about CoVid killer-juice deaths and injuries.
Parliament is an irrelevance: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go. Oliver Cromwell.
“The majority of voters, particularly independents, do not want a Biden-Trump rematch.”
Maybe they want a Trump v somebody else?
About 74 million voted for Trump last time. It is quite clear Trump’s popularity has grown particularly among traditional Democrat voters, so that ‘majority’ is dubious.
Given that Kennedy has not previously run the country, then perhaps he has a lot less baggage than the other two. It wouldn’t last.
If RFK Jr gets anywhere near the White House, he will be taken out by the same organisation which took out his uncle and father. The USA is no more a democracy than the UK.
He’s a very brave man.
Nikki Haley – the bought and paid for by all the wrong people Big Tech – Big business – Big Pharmafia Harmaceutical interests – WEF – Gates and Soros.
She would be a warmongering disaster.