Council tax increase: Why am I paying the police so much?
Police have become more and more reliant on cash from your council tax.
For example, Leicestershire Police says it plans to hire 107 police officers and create a digital policing team to tackle high-tech crime. . By last December there were 44,000 fewer officers, staff and community support officers than in 2010. But Labour's Shadow Policing and Crime Minister Louise Haigh says local taxpayers are"being forced to pay the price for reckless Tory cuts to local police forces" and that it will create a postcode lottery where some areas are hit harder by austerity than others.Shadow policing and crime minister Louise Haigh has criticised the increase in tax
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