The PSNI is at risk of being left “unrecognisable” due to budgetary pressures that could see the loss of more than a thousand officers by 2025, its chief has warned.
Chief Constable Simon Byrne answered questions from the policing board on Thursday in relation to funding pressures facing the service.
The PSNI are currently facing a funding gap of £141 million that could result in a total recruitment freeze, cuts to overtime, closing police stations and enquiry offices and grounding some of the police fleet. In the absence of a Stormont government, the budget for the region was set by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris.
