GMB Calls On Government To Spend £50m On Police Operations Not On A PR Operation To Promote Police And Crime Commissioners
By 2015, we will have lost 15,000 police officers and 15,000 police staff as a result of the government’s cuts and this is putting a huge strain on the service to keep the public safe says GMB.
GMB, the union for civilian staff in the police service, is calling on the Home Office not to waste a further £50m on promoting Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) and spend this money on operational staff instead.
This GMB call is in response to the announcement by Police Minister Damian Green today (14th November) that he is throwing £50m a year into schemes to promote PCCs. GMB say this will do nothing to get more police on the street. This comes on top of the £75m spent on the deserted PCC elections, and the further millions spent by PCCs on running their offices.