Police in Northern Ireland are facing a potentially “impossible” financial situation, the PSNI chief constable has warned.
Simon Byrne said the force was facing a funding gap of £141 million and that this could result in a total recruitment freeze, cuts to overtime, closing police stations and enquiry offices and grounding some of the police fleet.
Last week, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris set a budget for the region in the absence of devolved ministers at Stormont.
