Last year Tories at County Hall voted to reduce police numbers further by voting against an increase in police proportion of council tax of £2.44 a year on a Band A property (or just 4.5pence per week) that would have seen the equivalent of 51 PCSO’s sacked.
The Tories are letting Lancashire down, supporting 20% police cuts nationally, Tory Council’s who are not taking crime seriously (Table 1) and Tory Councillors who voted to reduce PCSO numbers in Lancashire even further (2) .
In Hyndburn the Tory PCSO cuts would have scraped the neighbourhood policing team in Baxenden. I would urge residents to protect our local PCSO's and write to your Tory councillors and to Tim Ashton (Tory candidate for Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner next month) making sure they understand the value of neighbourhood policing and the important of police numbers on the beat.
Clive Grunshaw is Labour's Police and Crime Commissioner candidate
Editors Notes
(2) http://menmedia.co.uk/accringtonobserver/news/s/1486421_anger-over-decision-to-increase-police-precept-by-25-per-cent
(1) Table 1
Partnership
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Total
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
|
20
|
|
Blackpool Borough Council
|
17
|
|
Burnley Borough Council
|
8
|
|
Chorley Borough Council
|
27
|
|
Hyndburn
|
6
|
|
Pendle Council
|
6
|
|
Preston City Council
|
5
|
|
Ribble Valley Borough Council
|
2
|
|
Rossendale Borough Council
|
3
|
|
South Ribble Borough Council
|
4
|
|
West Lancs District Council
|
8
|
|
Wyre Borough Council
|
11
|
|
Morecambe Borough Council
|
0
|
|
Fylde Borough Council
|
0
|
|
117
|
||
86
|
||
31
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