ESSEX Police Federation has rubbished the Home Secretary\u2019s claims that police officers are \u201cscaremongering\u201d when they speak out against cuts.<\/p>\n
The Federation has been speaking out about the reality of multi-million pound cuts, which have led to the loss of 400 officers since 2011, as part of its #CutsHaveConsequences campaign.<\/p>\n
But the Home Secretary warned officers on at the Police Federation annual conference\u00a0that more cuts were to come, adding: \u201cI have to tell you that this kind of scaremongering does nobody any good. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t serve you, it doesn\u2019t serve the officers you represent, and it doesn\u2019t serve the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking after Theresa May\u2019s address, Mark Smith, Chairman of Essex Police Federation, said: \u201cThis leaves us as a Federation still pushing forward with our #CutsHaveConsequences campaign. It is not scaremongering. If she had paid attention to the campaign, she would have seen it was all information that was out there, it was all information that is 100% true. If a unit had gone, if there were budget cuts it cant be seen as scaremongering – it is the absolute truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe will carry on trying to get the message out there because the cuts still need to stop or be done in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monty Montgomery, Secretary of Essex Police Federation, warned that cuts will lead to more children becoming victim to sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe Home Secretary talked about detecting child sexual exploitation – she didn\u2019t talk about preventing it. Preventing that crime is done by schools officers in primary schools and neighbourhoods officers in neighbourhoods. Our neighbourhoods are being cut. We don\u2019t have the luxury of having schools officers any more.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we have lost that access to the primary school children who are vulnerable and will be the victims of the future because we are not preventing crimes. We might be able to detect them in the future, but we won\u2019t be able to prevent them. Preventing crimes is one of our key functions.\u201d<\/p>\n
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