Police budget cuts 'risk to three forces', HMIC warns

Three police forces may not be able to provide a "sufficiently efficient or effective service" due to budget cuts, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary says.

Its report on the impact of 20% funding cuts to police in England and Wales by 2015 said the Met Police, Devon and Cornwall and Lincolnshire were at risk.

There would be 5,800 fewer front-line officers across the 43 forces, it said.

Tom Symonds reports.

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