Its getting better under the tories.

[BolshieBastard]

Well, if you're a criminal or wanting to indulge in criminal activity that is.

10,000 less coppers by 2013. Still, its the last government's fault or even those beastly lib dems!

BBC News - Police to lose '10,000 officers by 2013'

The coalition's Spending Review set police budget cuts at 20% by 2014-15.

Policing minister Nick Herbert did not confirm or deny the figures but said it was the effectiveness of officers not their total size that counted.

More than 10,000 uniformed police officer posts are set to disappear by the end of next year in England and Wales, Labour Party research suggests.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the loss would be "brutal" and called the level of cuts "crazy".

[NotAllThere]

If you increase the number of coppers, you increase the amount of crime. Well known fact.

Sack half to the police force, and change the law to permit rather more robust defence of your property, and we'll all* be safer.

* Except those killed by the vigilantes by mistake, of course.

[xoggoth]

If we had increasing police numbers under Labour where did they all go? For thirty years local police houses have been disappearing from villages, stations vanishing from smaller towns or getting more and more limited in their opening times.

[Freamon]

Does this really mean 10,000 fewer officers than today? Or does it mean that of the X they were going to hire over the next couple of years, they're actually only going to hire X-10,000?

That seems to be the case with most of these "cuts", what they actually mean is that budgets won't be growing by as much as previously planned.

[NotAllThere]

Don't confuse the argument with facts and reason.

[KentPhilip]

Well, if you're a criminal or wanting to indulge in criminal activity that is.

10,000 less coppers by 2013. Still, its the last government's fault or even those beastly lib dems!

No, it's partly your fault BolshieBastard, because you voted for them.

[Doggy Styles]

Don't believe anything the Labour party tells you. I thought you would have learned that by now.

Remember Jack Straw announcing an extra 5,000 police in 2001? It never happened.

[AtW]

More than 10,000 uniformed police officer posts are set to disappear by the end of next year in England and Wales, Labour Party research suggests.

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[shaunbhoy]

Deluded Waffle....blah blah blah....whine....wibble!!

You really are a peabrained cock!

[CheeseSlice]

If we had increasing police numbers under Labour where did they all go? For thirty years local police houses have been disappearing from villages, stations vanishing from smaller towns or getting more and more limited in their opening times.

I always thought that more and more 'police' workers were office based and were needed to monitor the millions of new CCTV cameras introduced during the blair/brown years.