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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Cuts to number of police forces ‘risks separating police from communities’

The Home Secretary has proposed major changes (PA) - (PA Archive)

Major policing reforms expected to drastically cut the number of forces across England and Wales would be “complex to deliver” and risk separating police forces from communities they serve, a policing body has warned.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is poised to unveil the largest overhaul of policing in decades on Monday, in an effort to tackle what Government sources called “an epidemic of everyday offences”.

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