Staff cuts are an option to balance books, PCCs warn

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Staff cuts are an option to balance books, PCCs warn

Staff redundancies are not being ruled out by police forces to balance the books next year.

PCC Paddy Tipping

Date - 18th December 2020
By - Chris Smith

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Police and Crime Commissioners rounded on the Home Office spending allocations and warned the austerity era is set to continue. Privately, PCCs are telling their forces that they have been given no option to make cuts following the announcement of...

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