Police numbers fall while crime rises

Police cut back to fund a hard Brexit

Crime is rising while police numbers are falling but the police barely got a mention in the Chancellor's budget speech despite forces up and down the country being desperate for a cash-injection.
Latest statistics showed a 13% increase in police recorded crime. Meanwhile, police numbers falling and at their lowest levels in 14 years. There were 198,684 workers employed by the 43 police forces in England
and Wales in March 2017, a decrease of 2,237 compared with a year earlier.
It is clear where the money is going - £3.7billion to help the Conservatives drive through a hard Brexit. Just a fraction of this money would really helped the police but as usual we see the Tories putting politics above everything else.
Meanwhile, Labour have failed to demonstrate how their Brexit vision would avoid similar cuts to services. Any form of Brexit is expected to cost tens of billions of pounds. Liberal Democrats believe this money would be better invested in improving our public services.