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Police cuts – the legal landmine lurking for ministers
FactCheck learns the unions are spoiling for a fight over police cuts – and the Government could be leaving police chiefs in a legal minefield.
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Cameron in the dock over frontline police cuts
The claim “He’s wrong. ACPO aren’t talking about frontline officers, so he’s simply wrong about that.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 9, 2011 “Now we hear that companies who have been burgled are going to be sent fingerprint kits in the post.” Ed Miliband MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 9, 2011
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FactCheck: Police job cuts ‘tip of the iceberg’
As an independent review into police pay and conditions recommends savings of almost £500m, the Association of Chief Police Officers warns that planned Government cuts will still cost around 28,000 jobs in forces up and down the country. Are they right? FactCheck investigates.
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Police warn of pay review protests
As a “radical overhaul” sets out to save over £1bn by targeting overtime and bonuses, the Police Federation warns it will do “everything possible” to vent anger.
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Judges should ‘sign off covert policing’
All undercover police operations should be approved by a judge before they begin, the head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Sir Hugh Orde, tells a meeting of human rights activists.
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Police to lose 10,000 officers by 2013 – Labour
Cuts to the police budget outlined in the government’s spending review will mean 10,190 fewer police officers in England and Wales within two years, according to new research by the Labour party.
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Rise in hate crimes masks victims who do not dare to report
As a schoolgirl is convicted of manslaughter for killing a man in London in a homophobic attack, Channel 4 News obtains figures showing the rise in hate crimes reported in the UK.
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CutsCheck: which police forces will be hit hardest?
CutsCheck analyses which police forces will be hit the hardest by government spending cuts.
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Cumbria shootings: Derrick Bird owned guns legally
“No reasonable opportunities” within the gun licensing system could have stopped taxi driver Derrick Bird shooting 12 people dead in Cumbria earlier this year, an independent review finds.
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CEOP chief: National Crime Agency would be bad for children
The man who resigned as head of the body set up to tackle child sex abuse tells MPs that the planned new National Crime Agency will be bad for children.
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Online child protection boss Jim Gamble quits
The head of the UK’s online child protection agency steps down in a row over a proposed government merger, a move Channel 4 News learns could put children’s lives in danger.
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Cumbria killings: police saw Bird shooting
Three police officers saw Derrick Bird at the start of his shooting spree, police have confirmed. And Channel 4 News has learnt he had tea with his brother at their mother’s days before the shooting.
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Planning for G20 protests ‘inadequate’
A report by the police watchdog criticises the Metropolitan Police’s planning for the London G20 protests in April, in which a bystander was pushed by an officer and later died.