Vote to protect YOUR Police Service

New figures have revealed that Tory cuts will lead to the loss of 250 Police jobs in North Wales, including 125 front line officers. This increased figure (up from the previous figure of 203) makes a mockery of the Tory-led Government’s claim that their cuts will not affect front-line policing.

These figures show the real cost of the Tory-led Government’s savage 20% police funding cuts. I want the Government to be getting more frontline officers on the streets and strengthening neighbourhood policing. Yet Ministers seem more interested in cutting police numbers than in cutting crime.

Because of the Government’s 20 per cent cut to the police budget our Chief Constable has been put in an impossible position. Across the country frontline police officers are being lost, officers are being taken off the beat to do the jobs previously dealt with by support staff, and neighbourhood policing is being cut back. Overall the Government has cut over 12,500 police officers and over 15,000 support staff across England and Wales.

Welsh Labour’s pledge to fund an extra 500 PCSOs shows that there is an alternative. The police cannot be exempt from making savings, but going too far too fast puts the fight against crime at risk. That’s why the numbers of police officers should be protected and why cutting crime should be a priority, not an afterthought.


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