60,000 POLICE CUTS
UNISON Response
15th September 2010
Dear Friends
Please see HQ’s response to possible cuts. There is no news as to the depth of the cuts locally; I will update you all as soon as I am able to. Meanwhile I’m always at the end of my mobile if you need a chat and don’t forget the services of UNISON Welfare for confidential financial and emotional support.
Kind regards Caren
UNISON Response
Commenting on new figures, showing that up to 60,000 police jobs could go due to the Government funding cuts, Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, said:
“Cuts on this scale will decimate local police services. Police staff work as part of a team doing vital jobs such as finger printing, scenes of crime, emergency control room operators, PCSOs, detention officers etc. “Investment in police staff, officers and in neighbourhood policing teams has made a big difference in cutting crime. Axing budgets by a quarter will turn back the clock, and will see crime rates soar. “The government’s ideological choice to cut the deficit hard and fast is risking community safety. But there is an alternative to the mantra of cuts. America is still keeping up spending to boost growth, and stave of the double dip recession – we should be doing the same.”