Cressida Dick rejects claim by PM of no correlation between stabbings and police numbers
Britain’s most senior police officer has contradicted Theresa May’s claim that police cuts were not to blame for a rise in violent crime, as a renewed political focus fell on knife crime after two fatal stabbings of teenagers.
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