The most expensive way to fund policing is through the mechanism of overtime, which is now at its highest-ever level. Would it not be sensible for the Government, rather than allowing hard-working police officers to work longer hours and cost the taxpayer more, to revisit the issue of police funding and revert to the figures that obtained in 2009-10, when Labour was in office?
Police: Financial Sustainability
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Hanson of Flint
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 12 September 2018.
It occurred during Urgent question on Police: Financial Sustainability.
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