UK police officers to lose jobs with govt.'s spending cuts
UK government’s spending cuts will see over 22,000 police jobs being lost.
According to The Guardian, a private estimate says the number of police officers in England and Wales would fall to about 100,000. This is much lower than previously expected.
The paper wrote that the estimate “is based on the lowest expected cut of 25% in the funding that government provides for policing between now and 2020.”
There are currently about 125,000 officers in England and Wales.
Earlier, the chancellor George Osborne told Home Office that funds the police, that their cuts would range from 25%-40%.
According to The Guardian, ”an estimated 17,000 officer posts were eliminated in the last round of cuts under the Conservative-led coalition government between 2010-15.”
“The cuts are quiet interesting phenomenon with some quiet contradictory conflicts that police have also conducted national protests in London against the cuts,” Political Analyst Sukant Chandan told Press TV.
He warned about the consequences of the cuts saying with the lower police officers at work, the Home Office would prioritize different areas for patrolling.
The London-based analysts went on saying that the cuts would deepen the conflicts between police and the government and the conflicts would have its own consequences for the UK society.
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