PCC: Police numbers reduce by over 20,000 since 2010

Police cuts have reached crisis point as we have the lowest police numbers since March 1985 (http://bit.ly/2uNjnTZ)

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These reports show that police force numbers have dropped to a 30-year low, with a drop of 0.7% to 123,142 police officers across England and Wales (2016-17). Shockingly, this is the lowest total number of police numbers since 1996.

PCC Clive Grunshaw said, "Reports also highlight that the number of soldiers has fallen by 7,000, proving that the recruitment and retention crisis in the armed forces is getting worse under the Tories’ watch. I have stood up time and time again to deplore the Government’s cutting of 1,000 police officers across Lancashire."