Lancashire Police loses 680 jobs in just two years (From Lancaster And Morecambe Citizen)
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Lancashire Police loses 680 jobs in just two years
9:33am Thursday 20th September 2012 in News
MORE than 500 police officers and 180 police staff posts have been axed in the past two years, it has been revealed.
The job losses have been part of spending cuts ordered by the government as Lancashire police bids to save £42million by 2015.
The force is working towards losing a total of 550 officers and 250 staff — 10 per cent of the 6,000 people employed by Lancashire Constabulary.
The figures came to light after concerns were voiced by Lancashire politicians at the rate of reductions to frontline policing.
Clive Grunshaw, Labour's candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner in Lancashire, said: “These figures confirm that there has been a significant drop in the number of frontline officers here in Lancashire.
“The Tories should be trying to fight crime and support the police. Instead they are cutting your police officers.
“They don’t have a plan to cut crime, only to cut the number of police officers. We need real change from this Government to make our streets safer.”
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) previously estimated that there will be 5,800 fewer frontline police officers across the country by 2015 and in Lancashire HMIC predicted 213 frontline officers would be lost by 2015.
A Lancashire police spokesman said: “Of our estimated cuts, 550, the total frontline figure will be in the region of 405 but a number of these posts are supervisor posts as well as PCs.”
Despite the cuts Lancashire police said it will have a higher proportion of staff working in visible frontline roles than other parts of England and Wales — some 61 per cent of the total workforce.
Assistant Chief Constable Tim Jacques said: “These next 12 months will be the most difficult we face in the spending review period. We’ve taken most of our reductions out of the budget in the last two years – over £30million. The reality of the impact of this reduction is being felt now with the Constabulary striving to maintain quality services to the public with fewer staff and less money.”
Comments(10)
DirtyHarry
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12:38pm Thu 20 Sep 12
jaffa90 wrote:And I bet you are probably one of those who was caught speeding hence your bitter negative attitude towards the Police.
POLICE, WHERE?
Only see them on a change of shifts or catching speeders.
Maybe if you can read you can look at the other articles that appear on here about people being brought to justice.
happycyclist
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12:51pm Thu 20 Sep 12
makaveli96
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3:27pm Thu 20 Sep 12
But while we have criminals, and pay for them to live (in Prison), then the numbers wont add up!
RUinsane
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4:04pm Thu 20 Sep 12
jaffa90
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11:13pm Thu 20 Sep 12
DirtyHarry wrote:Caught speeding,no not me,clean licence for 40 years.
jaffa90 wrote:And I bet you are probably one of those who was caught speeding hence your bitter negative attitude towards the Police.
POLICE, WHERE?
Only see them on a change of shifts or catching speeders.
Maybe if you can read you can look at the other articles that appear on here about people being brought to justice.
Bitter no negative yes,they turn a blind eye because of paper work and it`s cheaper to let law breaking occur because our prisons are full to overflowing.
I`ve experienced police response and it`s been pathetic.
DirtyHarry
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8:56am Fri 21 Sep 12
jaffa90 wrote:So because the Police response you experienced was bad you think the whole service is pathetic ?
DirtyHarry wrote:Caught speeding,no not me,clean licence for 40 years.
jaffa90 wrote:And I bet you are probably one of those who was caught speeding hence your bitter negative attitude towards the Police.
POLICE, WHERE?
Only see them on a change of shifts or catching speeders.
Maybe if you can read you can look at the other articles that appear on here about people being brought to justice.
Bitter no negative yes,they turn a blind eye because of paper work and it`s cheaper to let law breaking occur because our prisons are full to overflowing.
I`ve experienced police response and it`s been pathetic.
I would think a man of your age would be a little less narrow minded. You clearly base your opinion on what tip bits of misleading information the press feed you. How else do you explain the basis for your ridiculous assumptions?
jaffa90
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9:13am Fri 21 Sep 12
DirtyHarry
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5:11pm Fri 21 Sep 12
jaffa90 wrote:You see Jaffo90 there lies your problem, you're getting evidence for your ignorant comments from television programmes about the Police, programmes that are edited and tailored to entertain and titillate. Do you believe everything you see on TV ? Do you also believe that the moon is made of cheese ?
As well as personnel experience just watch Police in action on documentaries,also watch police turn a blind eye/s in Nelson regarding non seat belt wearers, phone users, drug selling.Clint Eastwood would sort them out.
Why not tell us all about your bad "personnel" experience with the Police? Does it involve YOU being arrested by any chance ?
And while you're at it why not produce some evidence of Police turning a blind eye to all those activities you mentioned? I think it's more a case of you see these things going on and there are no Police Officers around doing anything about it, am I right ? Hmmmmm might it possibly be because there are 500 less cops on the streets of Lancashire?
The clue was in the title of this article all along wasn't it Jaffo ?
jaffa90
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10:04pm Fri 21 Sep 12
jaffa90 says...
10:28am Thu 20 Sep 12
Only see them on a change of shifts or catching speeders.