15/12/2014
Public Safety "At Risk" By Policing Cuts
Britain's most senior policeman has warned that public safety is "at risk" unless "radical measures" are taken to tackle funding cuts.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has called on police forces in England and Wales to merge and share resources with other emergency services. The Met Police commissioner added that the UK's police force was facing "years of austerity and shrinking budgets", whoever is in power.
Sir Hogan-Howe made the call in a piece he wrote for the Guardian newspaper.
The commissioner wrote that without fast action and courage, public safety would be put at risk by the ongoing cuts.
(MH/CD)
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has called on police forces in England and Wales to merge and share resources with other emergency services. The Met Police commissioner added that the UK's police force was facing "years of austerity and shrinking budgets", whoever is in power.
Sir Hogan-Howe made the call in a piece he wrote for the Guardian newspaper.
The commissioner wrote that without fast action and courage, public safety would be put at risk by the ongoing cuts.
(MH/CD)
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