DOCUMENTS revealing the Government DID see the link between police cuts and a rise in serious crime have been released confirming what police officers knew all along says Essex Police Federation.<\/p>\n
After a lengthy process involving The Information Commissioner papers have been made public showing the Government\u2019s own experts concluded that\u00a0in late 2017 to early 2018, Whitehall cuts to police resources had contributed to the surge in serious violence.<\/p>\n
Publicly Theresa May\u2019s Government, and the Home Secretary at the time Amber Rudd, denied the link.<\/p>\n
It is a case of we told you so, Laura Heggie Essex Police Federation Chairman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s taken a long time for them [the Government] to understand and to actually see the consequences,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it had been, if we\u2019d been listened to earlier on, then perhaps we wouldn\u2019t have had to get to the stage where we are now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then we wouldn\u2019t be having to go through this full recovery in order to gain back a little bit of what we had before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laura hopes it might lead to some \u2018learnings\u2019 in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully the next time the suggestion of cuts come up, their memory isn\u2019t short,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will always be reminding them of the situation and how it\u2019s going to end up. That isn\u2019t us scaremongering, that is us just telling them, as the people that do the job, the reality of their decisions and the consequences of their decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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