Monday August 02, 2010
Police forces 'accept cuts will mean losing officers'
Andrew Woodcock
Press Association
Police forces accept that they will have to lose officers as part of the Government's austerity drive, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers said today.
But Sir Hugh Orde said that in order to maintain frontline policing, officers must be released from some of the constraints imposed by legislation over recent years, and given more freedom to use their own discretion in response to incidents - even if this means that sometimes things go wrong.
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