For Ed Miliband it was
falling police numbers, the Coalition's broken promises (particularly on tuition fees) and Cameron not giving straight answers to any of his questions.
No comprehensive research has been done into whether there is a link between
falling police numbers and rising crime levels.
Policing minister Nick Herbert has insisted
falling police numbers will not necessarily lead to a worse frontline service.
Not exact matches
University of Chicago Professor Jeffrey Grogger found in the study that «
police injuries
fell, but neither injury rates nor the
number of injuries to civilians were affected.»
Before the
police pepper - spraying, for instance, mainstream media hits
numbered in the low double - digits per day, and though they spiked five-fold after those first clashes, they quickly
fell again.
«I think it's quite wrong to make the assumption that simply because the
number of
police officers is
falling that means there will be a worse frontline service,» Mr Herbert said.
«In the coming weeks, we will work with the
Police Department and the mayor to identify the very small
number of exceptions that raise public safety concerns, and any case that does not
fall within these exceptions will no longer be prosecuted,» he added.
The public do not want to see teacher
numbers fall, fewer
police officers on their streets, or hospitals short - staffed.
Both front line and local
police numbers have
fallen while officers on long - term sick leave have increased.
«The
number of frontline
police officers has
fallen by more than 4,600 since 2010, according to new figures.
Between September 2010 and September 2016,
police numbers in England and Wales
fell by 18,991, or 13 %, according to the Home Office.
Thanks to our work with the
police, the
number of child arrests
fell by 64 % between 2010 and 2016.
He added that simply relying on drink drive campaigns is not enough to reduce incidents in the context of
falling numbers of specialist roads
police.
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».
The
number of stop - and - frisk reports filed by New York City
police fell 51 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year.
The total
number of cannabis offences recorded by English and Welsh
police forces — including penalty notices, cautions, charges and summons —
fell from 145,400 in 2011 - 12 to 101,905 in 2014 - 15.
In his strongest PMQs performance to date, he told Mr Cameron crime doubled under the last Conservative government, the
number of
police officers
fell - and the shadow chancellor has now said there can be no more money for crime and
policing.
He said there is a deteriorating relationship between community and the
police, citing the Black Lives Matter protest last
fall that resulted in a
number of arrests.
The cost reductions will mean a 16,000 drop in officer
numbers and a drastic
fall in civilian
police staffing.
Today's report highlights the
fall in the
number of specialist road traffic
police as a major problem -
police forces are increasingly sidelining the work, with the result that
numbers fell by up to two thirds between 1996 and 1998, and by a fifth from 1999 to 2004.
On Wednesday, A
police spokesman said:» [We] can confirm that since January 2011 the MPS [Metropolitan
police service] has received a
number of allegations regarding breach of privacy which
fall outside the remit of Operation Weeting.
«As Assembly Minority Leader, I was encouraged to hear the governor put forward priorities that
fall in line with a
number of Conference proposals, including: pension forfeitures for convicted officials, a Constitutional Convention, greater resources for our State
Police and focus on public safety, tax relief for small businesses, tax credits for teachers, and a substantial investment in education.»
Although the
numbers of common assaults rose between 2003 and 2007 — a reflection of earlier and more frequent
police intervention resulting from use of A&E data — the
number of more costly serious woundings
fell in Cardiff.
KYODO NEWS — Feb 17 — Alleged Japanese offenses related to online dating
fell 9.2 % in 2004 from the previous year to 1,582, while the
number of victims younger than 18 in these cases dropped 15.1 % to 1,085, reported the National
Police Agency.
A man walking through a market sees a large
number of
police in riot gear at one end of the street and a large
number of people with sticks and other weapons at the other end of the street; one man raises a Molotov cocktail over his head and he is shot by an officer and he
falls and it ignited by the flaming container (we see him thrashing on the ground as the two groups charge toward each other and fight as other people run for cover).
Figures published recently by
Police Scotland have revealed a 3 % fall in the number of domestic abuse incidents reported to the police compared to the previous
Police Scotland have revealed a 3 %
fall in the
number of domestic abuse incidents reported to the
police compared to the previous
police compared to the previous year.
Violence against people
fell by 1 % — the first
fall in that category in eight years — and the
number of
police recorded crimes involving firearms dropped by 13 %.
The report's authors reported a «collapse in demand» in many of the high street's staple areas (pulling their evidence from a
number of different sources): a 46 % drop off in residential property transactions; a 72 %
fall in the
number of approvals for remortgaging; applications for probate down by 30 %; and
police station work down by 18 %.
This included a range of organisations including schools, Aboriginal housing services, charitable trusts, a
police unit or other organisations which
fell into a
number of different categories.