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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal and Vikram Dodd

HISTORICAL FACTS: Police chiefs blame tory cuts for fall in crime detection and charge rates - Caught on Camera

Prime minister Boris Johnson wears body armour while accompanying Met police officers on a drugs-related raid on a property in south London on Wednesday.
Boris Johnson wears body armour while accompanying Met police officers on a drugs-related raid on a property in south London on Wednesday. Photograph: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street

Cuts under Conservative-led governments have had a negative effect upon policing, the organisation representing senior officers has said, in a rebuff to claims that forces are focusing on “woke” causes.

The National Police Chiefs Council said in a statement that crime detection and charge rates had dropped following austerity measures and a fall in police numbers since 2010.

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