Category Archives: Policing

Police cuts calculation

The below picture shows the calculation of cuts to police budgets by the Goverment. There are £497 million of cost pressures on the Met Police. The Mayor of London has agreed to increase the mayoral Precept, which will generate £54 million, leaving a funding gap of £443 million.   

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September Policing and Crime update

  The key issues have been the borough mergers (and impact especially on emergency calls); police public access and engagement strategy (including station closures) and the Met Police funding crisis.   I have prepared a police funding briefing update   At this month’s MQT I questioned the Mayor on the mergers and police finance (video and transcripts of exchanges below).   […]

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Met Police Funding Update September 2017

Introduction: Summary    The Metropolitan Police Service is underfunded by central government and having had to make £600 million pounds worth of savings since 2010, and is having to find another £400 million pounds in savings by the end of the decade.   The Conservative Manifesto does not guarantee police budgets, opening up potential for further cuts which undermine the […]

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