THE\u00a0Police Funding Grants from Government have been published \u2013 with most forces across England and Wales down by around \u00a31 million year on year.<\/p>\n
With Chancellor George Osborne announcing that there would be no cuts to policing budgets in November\u2019s budget, it will now fall on Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure that is the case via council tax rises. In Essex, the force is to receive\u00a0\u00a3171,840,191 – a \u00a31 million fall on previous year.<\/p>\n
The biggest year-on-year change sees \u00a3670 million funding to the counter-terrorism budget, which is up from \u00a3564 million last year.<\/p>\n
It includes \u00a334 million for an increase in firearms capacity and an unspecified amount to tackle cybercrime.<\/p>\n
Forces will be able to maintain their budgets if their PCCs increase their tax by the maximum amount allowed.<\/p>\n
The announcement for the 2016\/17 funding follows both the \u201cshambles\u201d around proposed changes the police funding formula.<\/p>\n
You can see the full report here\u00a0https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/486447\/2015_12_16_provisional_police_grant_report_2016-17_final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE\u00a0Police Funding Grants from Government have been published \u2013 with most forces across England and Wales down by around \u00a31 million year on year. With Chancellor George Osborne announcing that\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}