HEAT’S ON RUDD TO GIVE US MORE COPS
Pressure builds after report leak
HOME Secretary Amber Rudd was last night under huge pressure to fund more police officers.
The outcry came as a leaked government report said her savage cuts had “likely contributed” to a rise in violent crime.
The Home Office study said gangsters and crooks had been encouraged by the lack of police on streets. The claims come as
® the UK is in the grip of violent crime. Diane Abbott said: “The
Ms Rudd claimed she had Government’s own analysis not seen the report despite seems to suggest that cuts it being prepared by her to police officer numbers own department. has had an effect in encouraging
The document says resources violent offences. for fighting serious “If true this blows apart violence “have come under the Tories’ repeated claims pressure and charge rates that their cuts have had have dropped”. no effect.”
It adds: “This may have Ms Rudd insisted money encouraged offenders.” was not the issue.
In the past 10 years, She added: “It’s up to officer numbers have fallen different police and crime by more than 20,000 across commissioners to make England and Wales. their decisions about how
The report findings were the money is spent.” blasted by Labour and Forum: Page 18 Shadow Home Secretary