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Jonathan McCambridge

Failure to recover police officer numbers in NI unimaginable, Boutcher says

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said he wants to increase the number of officers in the force (Jonathan McCambridge/PA) -

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has launched a recruitment campaign, with Chief Constable Jon Boutcher warning that a failure to recover officer numbers would be “unimaginable”.

Amid an ongoing budget crisis, the force currently has 6,300 officers, the lowest number in its history.

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