A big blow to community policing as the force has to deal with more funding cuts
Two weeks after Lincolnshire Police celebrated 20 years of PCSOs in the county, the force will be cutting the community support officer staff by 45% in a bid to tackle funding gaps.
, Lincolnshire Police had planned to make recurrent savings of £3 million per year, but say this recent announcement makes that even more difficult.Chris Haward said: “The budget settlement we have just received has been far more negative than anticipated “We do everything we can to deploy our people where they are most needed based on threat, risk, and harm to the public.
The Chief Constable at Lincolnshire Police goes on to say that “urgent and critical decisions” had to be made to take on funding gaps in the local force, restructuring the PCSO model in the process. “Whilst this is not something I want to do, we will have to reduce our PCSO numbers from 91 to 50 and reconfigure the operating model to ensure we still have an effective response prioritising neighbourhoods at highest risk of threat and harm.”
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