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Legal challenge launched over ‘outdated and unfair’ policing funding formula

Clive Hammond 07/08/2026
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David Sidwick, Dorset's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), said his region had for years been "short-changed by a funding formula that simply does not reflect the reality of policing" in the country.

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