Government urged to rethink police funding

'Current system has been around for a long time with years of political failure in trying to address it'.

PCC Clive Grunshaw: Police funding cannot keep coming at the expense of hard-working council tax payers.

Police and local government leaders have called for a rethink of how policing is funded. The current system of precepts and top-ups is not creating the secure, long-term revenues stream needed to fight crime and modernise forces, according to a...