The PoliceServiceNI is cutting more than 400 jobs by March - including 309 officers - as it faces a funding shortfall of about £80m
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is to reduce its number of staff by 6% in the coming months.The force, which is not recruiting new officers this year, said the cut would leave it with 6,700 police, making it the smallest it has ever been.of a "less visible and responsive police service" because of budget constraints.
There is also likely to be reduced roads policing and the response to protests and disorder may be affected. It also said the number would be be 800 fewer than the 7,500 commitment made by the Stormont political parties in the New Decade New Approach political agreement of January 2020."Inevitably with less police there will be less policing."
"We will see fewer officers and a marked deterioration in services to the general public if these swingeing cuts go ahead," the federation's chair Liam Kelly said.
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