Sentences with phrase «as police budgets»

The mayor will oversee policies such as transport, social care and housing as well as police budgets.

Not exact matches

(May previously served as U.K. home secretary, when austerity budgets limited funding for national police.)

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

Note: The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC) is now used in the budget in place of the Metropolitan Police Authority as the former replaced the latter on 16 January 2012 following the enactment of the relevant clauses in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

However, the EU itself can not bear all of the blame for corruption as 90 per cent of the EU budget is spent and policed by the member states.

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

Goldie secured more police officers, a freeze in council tax and new approaches to drug treatments as part of her support for the budgets of Alex Salmond's previous minority government.

«I'm heartened that the Governor has embraced my proposal in the state budget to better protect the men and women who keep New Yorkers safe, our police officers, by equipping their vehicles with bullet proof glass as I first called for on December 21, 2014.»

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Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

The additional police officers were announced as part of the city's fiscal year 2016 $ 78.5 billion budget, and came as a surprise to many.

As a City Councilperson I need to do everything I possibly can to save the nearly 400 families of firefighters, teachers, police officers and teamsters that may be facing layoffs this coming budget year.»

Sheehan walked the gathering through what she said are some of the many highlights of her first term, including Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion as part of the community police initiative; restructuring the city budget; lobbying for additional state aid; developing an equity agenda; engaging marginalized communities; transforming neighborhoods like Sheridan Hollow and Park South.

Pointing to the police revenue sharing defeat, the decision not to fund VEEB, and the loss of additional hotel / motel revenue — as well as use of the sewer stabilization funds — Mr. Schneiderman voted against the budget for the first time in 10 years.

The younger Vallone, who was first elected to his Astoria City Council seat in 2002, pointed to his time in office tackling local issues like graffiti and fighting cuts to the police department's budget as head of the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

De Blasio has proposed increasing the number of NYC police officers on the streets — while keeping the police department's overall head count steady — as part of negotiations with the City Council over the budget.

The governor's proposed $ 98 billion state operating - funds budget for fiscal 2018 again shows growth below the 2 percent line — with help from still more gimmickry, such as a shift of 75 State Police positions into the capital - projects fund.

In June 2015, as part of negotiations for the Fiscal Year 2016 Adopted Budget, the de Blasio Administration and the City Council agreed to significant new police hiring and an overtime cap for the NYPD.9 At that time the cap was set at $ 513 million in fiscal year 2016 and $ 453 million in fiscal year 2017 and beyond.10 However, as one factor in determining the cost of uniformed overtime is the salary of employees, the City has increased the cap to reflect collective bargaining wage increases.

During a Common Council budget hearing, Syracuse police chief Frank Fowler gave a plug for his first deputy chief Joe Cecile to replace Fowler as the head of the department.

Thousands clashed with riot police in Athens on Sunday as the Greek parliament approved deeply unpopular budget cuts to secure a new eurozone bailout

On a more long - term concern, Senate Democrats want funding in the state budget to help police departments purchase body cameras for officers as well as the formation of a special investigator's office to review police - related deaths.

The Police Federation threatened that up to 40,000 police jobs could be cut as a result of the squeeze on buPolice Federation threatened that up to 40,000 police jobs could be cut as a result of the squeeze on bupolice jobs could be cut as a result of the squeeze on budgets.

Gallo's first budget as mayor also took a hard line on departmental spending — he rejected about $ 2 million in purchases, including new police, fire and public works vehicles, requested by department heads.

Some of the Town Board's discretionary additions included a $ 32,000 apparatus to sand roads and an increase in the police department's budget for supplies such as traffic cones from $ 200 to $ 2,000, Mr. Russell said.

While the Town Board has budgeted for new hires in the past, the positions had not been filled as police continue to work without a contract.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

The police said the e-mails also contain a pro-anarchy rant and come just as the state has passed an on - time budget that will include the layoffs of thousands of state workers.

He refused to confirm or deny estimates that other Whitehall departments would see their budgets reduced by 17 per cent to protect spending on education, health and the police, as he promised in last month's pre-Budget report.

As Manchester's Chief Constable Peter Fahy said when he set out his budget, he will still be able to deliver «more resources put into frontline policing and a more efficient and effective service for the people of Greater Manchester».

The controversy over police staffing will have to be saved for another day, as Sherwood's budget provides for a 24 - man force, as had been the -LSB-...]

Supervisor - elect Geoff Finn said he would like to hire additional police as requested by Moore, but faced with keeping this year's budget tight, he did not present any resistance to the budget.

The announcement comes after de Blasio surprisingly agreed to hire 1,300 additional police officers as part of the city's fiscal year 2016 $ 78.5 billion budget.

«I can make this very clear pledge: at the end of this process of making sure our police budgets are affordable, we will still be able to surge as many police on to the streets as we have in recent days in London, in Wolverhampton, in Manchester,» he said.

Walsh, in the budget proposal, said the city could cut spending in areas such as social security, medical insurance, parks conservancy, the department of public works and city employee, police and fire retirement systems.

Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN) After Niagara Falls lawmakers cited budget concerns for not funding the annual July 4th fireworks display, Key Bank and the Niagara Falls Police Athletic League have stepped forward to ensure the event goes on as planned.

The Home Office is imposing 20 % cuts on policing budgets as part of the coalition's broader spending cuts programme announced in last year's comprehensive spending review.

Theresa May today faced the wrath of police officers as she told them to stop «crying wolf» over budget cuts.

Mr. Skyler, 37, had served as one of Mr. Bloomberg's three closest advisers, and oversaw everything from the Police Department to the Fire Department to the city's budget.

The commissioner, who will receive 1,300 new police officers under the city's budget deal, said the community policing model that will be enacted as a result «will change many aspects of how cops and community interact — and thereby address many of the concerns that underlie the bills we're considering today.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York City is set to hire nearly 1,300 new police officers as part of its yearly budget agreement, Mayor Bill de Blasio said late Monday.

The mayor said he'd keep an eye on the issue as he gets closer to his executive budget rollout in May, though his preliminary budget contained no additional police classes to ramp up the department's size.

At the Council budget hearing, Bratton characterized the reduction of 6,000 police officers as a «huge loss,» saying it amounted to the entire number of officers hired under former Mayor David Dinkins.

They would join local police and firefighters, along with the State Patrol, in retaining their bargaining rights under the latest version the Assembly is taking up Tuesday as part of the state budget.

NYPD cops are also winners as the budget settles a long - standing dispute between the city and its police union by giving newer officers the same higher disability benefits as older ones.

To close the budget gap, the city is proposing a 1.64 percent property tax increase, cutting nearly 200 fire, police, public works, and parks jobs, as well as joining the state restructuring board to get a $ 5 million grant.

«Increasing the counter-terrorism budget by 30 % involves money going to the police as well as our security agencies to make sure we can deal with marauding gun attacks, make sure we can stop the guns coming into the country in the first place.

In the Council's response to de Blasio's budget proposal, Mark - Viverito said the officers were necessary «to keep New Yorkers safe while also implementing new reforms and initiatives» such as community policing.

The plan includes significant budget cuts to the public services and facilities, such as police, fire, libraries and parks.

The capital budget includes funding for an upgrade to the heating, ventilation, and air - conditioning at Town Hall, as well as road improvements and upgrades to the police communications and dispatch facilities, among other things.

«It will blow a massive hole in the city budget and end NYPD policing as we know it by taking control of the NYPD from Ray Kelly and giving it to judges,» he said.