Police experts suggest that the country needs 20,000 more officers to redress the balance
The backdrop was stark. The day before the Commissioner took calls from my listeners, Theresa May said there was no direct link between austerity measures and cuts in police and the grim and spiralling rise in violent crime on our streets, avowing there was “no direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers”. She said: “What matters is how we ensure that police are responding to these criminal acts when they take place... that people are brought to justice.
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