Police forces are going through huge cuts: 17,600 police jobs have gone since March 2010 and another 5,800 will go in the next three years.
The figures out today from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) show that:
• Forces have to make savings of £2.4bn by 2015
• 20% cut in Home Office grants to police authorities
• planned reduction in the total number of police jobs, including non-frontline civilian staff, has now reached 32,400 by 2015
• including 15,000 uniformed officers, of whom at least 7,600 will not be in frontline roles
• The bulk of the cuts will fall on the non-frontline roles in policing, whose ranks are facing a 33% reduction by 2015
Alan Travis writes today that:
The report, Policing in Austerity: One Year On, says the number of officers that are “visible and available to the public” has fallen by 5,500, including a fall of 5,200 response officers. This has been matched by a rise of neighbourhood officers by 2,300
Police cuts interactive map. Click image to explore it
There is a big variation by force too. Northumbria and Warwickshire police forces will have to cut 23% of their budget, compared to 2010-11. Meanwhile, Cambridgeshire only has to lose 8%.
In terms of staffing, the biggest proportional cuts comes in Dorset and Humberside, both of which have to lose 21% in police officer numbers, with a combined loss of 736 by 2015. The average for England and Wales is 10%. Cleveland will see its workforce lose 751 staff, a cut of 29%.
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Data summary
Police cuts by force
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SOURCE: HMIC
Avon Somerset
13
93
73
-12
-9
-9
-11
Bedfordshire
15
88
70
-10
-18
-24
-14
Cambridgeshire
8
88
67
-10
-33
-7
-19
Cheshire
14
61
-11
-26
-6
-17
Cleveland
17
93
79
-15
-64
-14
-29
Cumbria
16
90
54
-7
-27
-6
-15
Derbyshire
14
88
63
-8
-11
0
-9
Devon Cornwall
16
85
54
-17
-18
-1
-17
Dorset
14
87
66
-21
-25
-5
-22
Durham
17
92
59
-9
-22
-2
-13
Dyfed-Powys
11
94
42
-5
-18
79
-6
Essex
13
91
61
-9
-18
-19
-13
Gloucestershire
15
87
61
-10
-26
-16
-15
Greater Manchester
18
85
82
-19
-22
-2
-19
Gwent
19
91
74
-9
-31
0
-16
Hampshire
14
87
71
-10
-21
-3
-14
Hertfordshire
18
95
58
-11
-13
-3
-11
Humberside
10
85
82
-21
-12
-20
-17
Kent
15
87
62
-15
-37
-11
-23
Lancashire
14
89
69
-15
-2
-4
-10
Leicestershire
18
88
69
-14
-9
-15
-12
Lincolnshire
17
90
65
-11
-51
0
-27
London, City of
19
82
-16
12
-69
-11
Merseyside
16
91
73
-12
-18
-25
-15
Metropolitan
21
105
-4
-4
-26
-6
Norfolk
16
89
50
-10
-16
-5
-12
North Wales
10
88
63
-10
-11
67
-6
North Yorkshire
12
91
50
-11
-18
-8
-14
Northamptonshire
10
81
72
-10
-29
-18
-19
Northumbria
23
91
55
-17
-47
-42
-28
Nottinghamshire
20
95
74
-13
-31
23
-17
South Wales
15
88
71
-9
-13
52
-7
South Yorkshire
14
86
78
-11
-29
4
-18
Staffordshire
17
91
62
-18
-27
-11
-21
Suffolk
13
89
64
-1
-17
-3
-8
Surrey
12
90
57
3
-8
21
-2
Sussex
16
84
62
-15
-23
-6
-17
Thames Valley
12
90
70
-3
-7
-9
-5
Warwickshire
23
83
63
-17
-20
-15
-19
West Mercia
17
91
60
-10
-34
0
-19
West Midlands
17
90
76
-12
-21
-3
-14
West Yorkshire
20
94
84
-14
-32
0
-19
Wiltshire
11
91
55
-10
-16
3
-12
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