Home secretary says police forces are sitting on £1.6bn reserves and shouldn’t be asking for more money from governmentThe home secretary, Amber Rudd, has chastised police chiefs for demanding hundreds of millions of pounds more in funding. Rudd said police forces, which say they need more resources to stem rising crime, could still make efficiency savings and were sitting on reserves of £1.6bn. Rudd said: “Of course, part of being a police and crime commissioner is about speaking to the government about resourcing. Forces are being asked to absorb pay rises and inflationary pressures and this is leading to cuts in service. We are particularly concerned that these cuts are undermining crime prevention and proactive police work.”

Source: The Guardian November 01, 2017 12:06 UTC