Comment: why we need a recount on national officer numbers
By changing the way police officer numbers are counted the Home Office has conjured up 4,000 extra officers who aren't actually there.
Date - 4th May 2020
By -
Royston Martis
6 Comments
Last week the Home Office were actively celebrating the message that there are now 131,595 police officers in England and Wales.
This figure has been happily lapped up by the newspapers in stories about the police officer uplift. It hasn’t to...
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