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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Met police budget ‘heading off a cliff’, commissioner warns in funding plea

Mark Rowley outside Scotland Yard
Mark Rowley said: ‘We are working hard to reform but are doing so in a context where our budget is heading off a cliff.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

Scotland Yard needs hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding to drag itself out of crisis as its budget is “heading off a cliff”, its commissioner has said.

Sir Mark Rowley said half of the Metropolitan police’s premises were so dilapidated that they faced closure within a decade, and sky-high demand on policing had not been met by an increase in money.

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