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Home Secretary Mahmood Announces Plans to Reduce Police Forces in England and Wales
The reform will reduce 43 forces to larger regional units focused on serious crime, while restoring neighborhood policing with 13,000 new officers, officials said.
- On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will unveil plans to slash the 43 police forces in England and Wales, refocusing them on serious and organised crime next week.
- Ministers argue the current model is bureaucratic and wastes money because smaller forces run separate headquarters and back-office staff while an 'epidemic of everyday offences' goes unpunished.
- An independent review will determine new forces and Local Policing Areas will deploy neighbourhood officers focused on local crime, with savings reinvested to recruit 13,000 more neighbourhood police.
- Police representative bodies warned fewer forces won’t ensure better policing, the APCC said regional forces risk derailing reforms and ministers plan to scrap police and crime commissioners in 2028 to save at least £100 million.
- Officials say mergers will take years and are expected to finish by the end of the next parliament, around 2034, as police chiefs call for 12 to 15 mega-sized forces in the largest reform of policing in decades.
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