Police under pressure

Certainly every area in Britain needs to be policed by capable and well trained officers. Things are not going to get any easier in the foreseeable future. Somewhere down the line and within the next couple of years the Police are going to be put under unbearable pressure. The pressure then will not be not the same as the pressure now. Then it will be not enough well trained officers to care for the work they will have to do. One does not need any predictions to see what way things are going to go.

The Pressure Now.

The pressure all Police forces have today is the cutting down of expenses. You can not imagine that it is cheap to run a Police force in a city can you? If you have to cut back, what can be cut back? Quality must be affected.  Here is a report from Essex (GB) Police:

ESSEX Police has saved an estimated £4million this financial year.

Police and Crime Commissioner Nick Alston has revealed the force has made the savings primarily from not replacing PCSOs who have left.

Mr Alston said the cash would not be wasted, and would be used to mitigate the £11million in cuts the force faces in the next financial year.

However he said staffing levels will still be under pressure.

Provisional figures for the 2013-14 financial year reveal Essex Police will be about 1-1.5 per cent under budget, roughly £4million.

Most of the money comes from cash allocated to salaries for 360 PCSOs but through natural wastage the number of the officers has dropped to 310.

http://www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk/news/billericaynews/11066248.Essex_Police_saves_estimated___4m_this_year/