The PSNI's ability to deal with serious disorder and violence will "slow down" as it experiences a "full-blown crisis" with its budget, the Chair of the Police Federation in Northern Ireland has said.
Liam Kelly told Belfast Live he feared that more and more officers could also end up leaving policing as Chief Constable Simon Byrne acknowledged on Thursday that the PSNI would "shrink over the next three years".
"The time is now right for our public and our politicians to recognise that we're in a full-blown crisis in policing here," he said.
