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May battles it out with Osborne over police funds: Home Secretary under pressure to stand up to the Chancellor over proposed budget cuts By Daniel Martin Chief Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail 02:01 18 Nov 2015, updated 09:24 18 Nov 2015 Theresa May is holding firm against frontline policing cuts amid pressure Treasury has asked her department to create plans for cuts of up to 40% Chancellor will meet with Home Secretary today to thrash out the details May is under pressure to win better deal for police after the Paris attacks …
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An unexpected but welcome ally in the fight against further cuts. The MCB fears police officers who have developed a rapport with Muslim communities over time will be replaced by anti-terror specialists who are parachuted in. Photograph: Alamy Britain’s largest Muslim group has warned that big cuts to the police planned by the Conservative government risks damaging the fight against terrorism. The Muslim Council of Britain has previously been critical of police actions and has been branded by some as supporting extremism, which it strongly denies. But it called on Sunday for the police service to be spared a swingeing cut t…
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Cameron to set out Syria strategy to MPs within days 22 November 2015 From the section UK Politics Image copyright EPA David Cameron is to set out his strategy for tackling the crisis in Syria within days, as he continues efforts to win support for air strikes against Islamic State. It comes after a Foreign Affairs Committee report which said these should not take place without a coherent international strategy on IS. Mr Cameron ha…
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Corbyn warns of police cuts 'gamble' after Paris attacks 2 hours ago From the sectionUK Politics Image copyrightAFP Ministers will be "gambling with the safety of the British people" if they make cuts to police budgets, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is to warn. "After Paris, there must be no cuts in the police front line," he will say in a speech to party members on Saturday. His comments come after senior police officers warned cuts could reduce the UK's ability to respond to an attack like that seen in Paris a week ago. The Spending Review could include a police budg…
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Police forces in England and Wales could save £1bn a year by outsourcing backroom services to private companies, private security firm G4S has said. The firm signed a £200m contract with Lincolnshire Police in 2012, with G4S staff now employed in backroom roles. John Shaw, from G4S, said it has saved the force £6m a year - and other forces could "easily" make similar savings. The Police Federation of England and Wales said any changes should "not compromise public safety". Its chairman Steve White also said any savings would have to be reinvested into policing. G4S, which faced heavy criticism when soldiers had to be deployed at the London Olympic…
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Police cuts expected to be announced in next week's Spending Review may "reduce very significantly" the UK's ability to respond to a Paris-style attack, Home Secretary Theresa May has been warned. The advisory comes in a restricted document prepared for Mrs May by one of the UK's most senior police officers. It says the ability to mobilise large numbers of officers would "reduce very significantly across the country". The Home Office said it would not comment on a leaked document. The BBC has seen key paragraphs of the document, Implications of the Paris Attack for UK Police Preparedness. It suggests further cuts to police budgets would affect the…
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Emergency workers are on the scene during an exercise at Bank underground station in 2003. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images Robert Quick says the government’s planned cuts to the police will hinder local intelligence and make the UK more vulnerable to terrorism The government’s planned large budget cuts to the police in the UK will make it easier for Islamic State to stage a terrorist attack, Britain’s former head of counter-terrorism has warned. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/18/police-cuts-will-make-an-isis-attack-in-uk-easier-former-scotland-yard-chief-warns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Add_to_Firefox
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Sky News are quoting Scotland Yard as saying they have arrested a man for the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Peoples' Bureau in St James square, London SW1, 31 years ago Apparently, two others have been arrested in connection with the man's arrest This is great news!
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Police cuts: David Cameron tried to save constituency stations By Nick HopkinsInvestigations correspondent, BBC Newsnight 13 November 2015 From the sectionUK Politics Image copyrightAP David Cameron privately lobbied to stop the closure of police stations in his constituency as the force tried to find £60m of savings, the BBC has learnt. The disclosure has prompted Labour to accuse him of "jaw-dropping hypocrisy". Number 10 said Mr Cameron had acted in his capacity as a local MP who believed Thames Valley Police could make savings without affecting front-line services. This week it emerged Mr C…
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Kayleigh Haywood search police find body 19 November 2015 From the section Leicester Image copyright Family photo Image caption Kayleigh is a student at Ashby School and previously attended Ibstock Community College Police searching for missing teenager Kayleigh Haywood say they have found a body in a field in Leicestershire. The 15-year-old, from Measham, has not b…
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In today's telegraph- This Essex town no longer has any Police dedicated to it. They have hired a private security team to Police their streets.
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How safe can we be? On the night of the Paris atrocity I was out with the Bedfordshire police, watching what they do and what they can no longer do. Blue lights flashing, dashing through the streets of Luton and Bedford in the patrol car, I talked about cuts with Olly Martins, the police and crime commissioner. As we spoke about the local Islamist terror threat we couldn’t know how much closer it was coming. Another interesting piece seems some are waking up to what these cuts mean http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/17/britain-police-cuts-theresa-may?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Add_to_Firefox
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Paris attacks: Theresa May to chair Cobra meeting 15 November 2015 From the section UK Politics Image copyright Alexander family Image caption Nick Alexander died doing the job he loved, his family said Home Secretary Theresa May will chair a Cobra meeting later to discuss the UK government's response to the attacks in Paris. Britain's terror threat level is "sever…
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Paris attacks: UK security to be intensified - Theresa May 16 November 2015 From the section UK Image copyrightReuters Image captionMedia captionTheresa May: "Police will be intensifying their approach at events in big cities" Security will be "intensified" at events in major cities and at UK borders in the wake of Friday's terror attacks in Paris, Theresa May has said. Security plans will be reviewed and any necessary lessons learned, the home secretary said in a Commons statement. Her comments come as the Metropolitan Police revealed there are 600…
