Sentences with phrase «police funding»

This, in turn, feeds into the questions of police funding - with figures showing rising knife and violent crime.

The changes in police funding are an effort to put more cops on the streets.

And that's true, if you're talking about central government police funding, in real terms.

He said the only funding that may be in jeopardy is police funding because it is relevant to the executive order as per legal precedent.

Central government police funding will reduce by 20 % in real terms by 2014 - 15.

Although police forces are subject to considerable control from the Home Secretary and Chief Constables remain responsible for operational matters, Police Authorities have had principal responsibility for police funding.

In some of the liveliest exchanges of the debate, Mr Brown challenged Mr Cameron to match Labour's commitment on police funding, telling him: «It's answer time, David.»

Goldman also serves as co-chair of the Charleston Police Fund and is an Honorary Commander of the Joint Base Charleston.

Does the presence of a Police and Crime Commissioner make a difference to the ways police funds are spent?

New Labour's police funding brought about real results in cutting crime, but public perceptions didn't improve.

Disgraced former Kingston cop Tim Matthews was back in town briefly on Wednesday to answer charges that he has failed to pay back more than $ 200,000 in police funds stolen from city and county taxpayers in a scandal that rocked local law enforcement.

Matthews, a highly decorated 26 - year veteran of the KPD and onetime head of the department's detective division is serving a three - to nine - year sentence in state prison for stealing $ 202,000 in police funds over the course of 10 years.

The shadow policing minister declared that her party would be voting against «a completely inappropriate police funding settlement that leaves our communities exposed and the public at risk».

But while Haigh's colleagues appreciated her robust opposition to another year of real terms cuts in local police funding, what did her mother make of it?

The October 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) outlined a 20 % cut in the central government police funding grant for all 43 forces in England and Wales by 2014/15 (in real terms).

Counter-terrorism specific policing will be protected with a smaller percentage cut than overall police funding of 10 % in real terms and we will ensure the right funding is in place to deliver a safe and secure Olympic Games in 2012.

Cuts to police funding announced in the October 2010 Spending Review as part of the Government's programme to tackle the huge deficit also attracted considerable controversy.

The Vice President later commissioned a police station complex to house the Millennium City District Police funded by The Church of Pentecost.

A Downing Street source said: «We have protected police funding and ensured that the police have the powers they need, which several of our political opponents have voted against.»

Apparently Owen Gray, 50, and Angela Cubitt, 34, found themselves at the wrong end of a police sting involving eight officers, a helicopter, and costing as much as GB # 20,000 (US$ 30,000) in much - needed police funds:

Meanwhile, Nigel Mills, who gained Amber Valley, concentrated on the issue of police funding in his county of Derbyshire:

Jeremy drew attention to the parliamentary success over tax credits and preventing the reduction in police funding.

12:31 - The riots are raised, and linked to the police funding issue by a Labour MP.

Police funding is full of perversities, one of which Sir Robert Peel would recognise.

This is still a key battleground this parliament, with decisions looming on whether to press on with continued cuts to police funding.

Despite popular opinion, police and crime commissioners are influential and important because as well as being responsible for the hiring and firing of chief constables, they are charged with holding the police fund.

As of 2013, the assets of the firefighters fund were just 54 percent of what was needed to cover liabilities; for the police fund, the ratio was just 67 percent.

If the Bill is passed into Law it will largely address the Police funding problems.

I point out to the Minister that the police funding review carried out some six years ago noted that Derbyshire police needed a significant increase in funding, of approximately # 5 million a year.

He attacked the coalition's cuts to police funding and condemned the government's response to growing number of universities set to charge the upper limit of # 9,000 fees.

But he also surprised MPs by pledging real terms increases to police funding, after much speculation that the police budget would be cut.

A 20 % cut to police funding is in reality more like 14 %, once one takes account of local funding through council tax.

Police funding is a controversial matter.

Police Authorities frequently voice concerns about the Total Standard Spending (TSS) figure produced by the Home Office, claiming that it does not cover increasing costs, while the Government maintains that police funding is rising.

«When the police funding allocations are published this month the government need to urgently change course.»

With media attention firmly latched on to the current crime epidemic sweeping London, Labour will be keen to remind voters of the claim that the Tory Government's cuts to police funding are to blame.

De Blasio said he saw five major areas where the Trump Administration and Republican controlled Congress posed a major threat: police funding, public health funding for the city's hospital system, education, environmental protection efforts and affordable housing.

On the police fund bill, Buhari said it lacked clarity on whether the National Assembly could legislate on funds meant for the 36 states and the 774 local governments in the country.

Section 2 of R (D) A 1886 (among other things) provides that: «Where a house, shop, or building in a police area has been injured or destroyed, or the property therein has been injured, stolen, or destroyed, by any persons riotously and tumultuously assembled together, such compensation as hereinafter mentioned shall be paid out of the police fund of the area to any person who has sustained loss by such injury, stealing, or destruction.»