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Suffolk Constabulary has been allocated 51 officers in the second phase of Operation Uplift recruitment - Credit: Archant 2005 An extra 51 police officers will be allocated to Suffolk over the next financial year as part of the government s drive to boost the national workforce by 20,000. The additional recruits will be on top of an extra 54 officers hired over the last year – in the first of a three-phase £750m Operation Uplift campaign announced in September 2019. Suffolk Constabulary s workforce of full time equivalent officers was 1,168 when the first phase of national recruitment began in March 2020 – compared to 1,246 in March 2010, when cuts to police resources began as part of government austerity measures, with numbers falling as low as 1,092 by March 2018. ....
Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore - Credit: Archant Suffolk taxpayers have until Thursday morning to have their say on the police and crime commissioner s latest proposed hike in annual household bills. Tim Passmore will go to the county s Police and Crime Panel on Friday to request approval for an increase to the constabulary s share of council tax in the forthcoming financial year. Members of the public have been asked for their opinions on the proposed increase, which equates to an extra £14.94 on annual bills for Band D properties, before 9am on Thursday. About two thirds of total funding currently comes directly from government grants, with the rest generated from the council tax precept. ....
Cumbria Police s budget will rise by up to £6m next year following a fresh injection of Government funding into crimefighting in the county. The funding, announced by the Home Office on Thursday, is in part for the purpose of recruiting more officers, to support the Government s goal of swelling the ranks of the nation s police forces by 20,000, by 2023. The boost, which equates to a five per cent rise in the force s total budget, was welcomed both by the county s Police and Crime Commissioner, Peter McCall, and the Cumbria Police Federation, which represents frontline officers. Mr McCall described the headline figure announced for Cumbria as a better settlement than we might have expected , in light of the economic impact of Covid-19 . ....