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Politics
Helen Corbett

Police forces must decide on officer numbers, says minister amid funding fears

The Government will invest an extra £100 million into neighbourhood policing (PA) - (PA Archive)

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures.

Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending” that police forces were not facing funding challenges.

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