Sentences with phrase «cutting police numbers»

However, after a wave of violent gun and knife crime in London, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn united with London Mayor Sadiq Khan accused the Tories of «reckless failure» by cutting police numbers and slashing funds for local services.

Crime remains a top - five issue for voters, but Cameron's problem is that he doesn't actually have any big ideas on crime, besides cutting prison places (maybe, or maybe not, it's not quite clear) and cutting police numbers (definitely), and these aren't policies to which he particularly wants to draw attention.

Miliband added to a sense that a government that is cutting police numbers and cutting prison numbers is betraying the public's expectations of what a Conservative government should do.

They've cut funding for the police at a national level and the Tory mayor has admitted to cutting police numbers by 1,700.

Culture secretary Karen Bradley was today forced to admit that the Conservatives have cut police numbers after doing her best to dodge the question.

«In the Metropolitan Police, although they have not cut police numbers, they have cut civilian staff and in practice that means there are fewer policemen available.»

Before the election, Alan Johnson, then Home Secretary and now Shadow Chancellor, refused to guarantee that he would not cut police numbers.

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And that would cut the number of community boards, police precincts and school districts for the seat in half.

Police numbers across the UK were cut by 20,000 under May's watch as Home Secretary.

The thirst for headlines and the inflation of ineffective bureaucracy and legislative hyperactivity distract the Government and successive Home Secretaries from the real job at hand: getting more police on the street with the single imperative of cutting crime, and a dedicated border police force to reverse our current vulnerability, which has seen the street value of cocaine and heroin slashed by almost half, while estimates show that the numbers of young women and girls trafficked into prostitution have quadrupled.»

Drastically cut immigration numbers, strengthen border police and deal with dodgy student visas and bogus marriages.

Take it as read each of the candidates will campaign against the government's crazy police cuts which will see up to 16,000 officers, a similar number of back office roles and 1,800 PCSOs face the chop.

I note that the amendment that bears the name of the right hon. Member for Blackburn [Jack Straw] contains a request that the cuts do not damage the number of police officers.

To improve the city's safety and protect against terror threats, all the candidates called for either an influx of new police officers to bolster the force or at the very least an end to the cuts that have slashed the number of officers patrolling the city over the past 12 years.

State leaders and Thruway officials in recent years have undertaken a number of cost - cutting measures, including staff layoffs and having the State Police budget absorb the cost of patrolling the toll roads, an expense that had previously been on the Thruway's books.

He insisted that Labour's plans to balance the books would be «aggressive,» but insisted that «our cuts will not be the number of police officers on our streets or nurses in our hospitals or teachers in our classroom.»

Haigh, who was elected as MP for Sheffield Heeley in 2015 general election and was the youngest Labour member of that parliament, also railed against the «seven years of prolonged, deep cuts from this Conservative Government that have led to police officer numbers falling and crime rising».

If only someone had given Karen Bradley this chart, she could have answered the question on whether the number of armed police has been cut pic.twitter.com/qP6Sy 4aUbs

Policing minister Tony McNulty held out the possibility of the plans being reintroduced, saying the mergers - which would cut the number of forces in England and Wales from 43 to 12 - had only been abandoned «in the immediate future».

The prime minister followed Jeremy Corbyn on the Channel 4 News / Sky News «Battle for Number 10» programme and was challenged by members of the public on reductions to police numbers, the Conservative plans for social care, and cuts to school funding.

She said she would also like to boost the number of police officers patrolling city streets to combat crime and also cut down on overtime costs.

This, cuts in police numbers and any increase in crime (if it occurs) are huge vulnerabilities for the government.

We are already saving up to 800,000 hours of police time a year by cutting red tape and our plans to do more will mean that there should be no reduction in the number of police officers on the streets.

Over nine in ten believed there would be a decline in service delivery due to planned budget cuts, while 86 % felt cutting police officer numbers would have a detrimental effect on crime levels.

It comes after senior police officers warned the Home Secretary that planned cuts to officer numbers will «severely impact» their ability to deal with a Paris - style attack.

And a leaked Home Office document prepared ahead of the new strategy launch said cuts to police numbers have «likely contributed» to a rise in serious violent crime.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police police stops.

Harry Fletcher from the National Association of Probation Officers (NAPO) union predicts a rise in prison numbers after cuts to police and probation numbers.

In fact, the move in my childhood home town of Clevedon to cut the number of vehicles available to Police community support officers (PCSOs) and instead ask them to use the buses may in fact be a blessing in disguise.

The Government has announced its intention to press ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of legal aid contracts allowing criminal defence firms to represent suspects in the police station, while also cutting fees by a further 8.75 %.

A growing number of disputed custody cases since 2006 have demonstrated that a mother, or a father, from all social classes, who cut off the child's contact with the other parent, not seldom in combination with allegations of abuse or psychiatric problems, easily can take control over the child and influence the child to reject the other parent without any objective reason — as the investigations made by the police or by consulting psychiatric records show.