With the prospect of a reduction of 34,000 police positions across the UK, there will be enormous pressure on Canadian police services to convincingly justify the retention of officers, and other staff positions, in the face of continuously declining crime rates and ballooning police salaries.
Police face 34,000 job cuts in UK
Many municipal and regional councils in Canada will be putting significant pressure on their respective police commissions and police services boards to review what's being done in the UK and providing substantial justification for existing police budgets. It is clearly time to begin (or return to) a process where huge police budgets are carefully interrogated in order to substantiate their requirements for human, financial, material and technological resources. Crime rates continue to decrease, municipal resources continue to be stretched to their limits, and police organizations are not able to compellingly argue in favour of the kinds of growth they have enjoyed over the last several decades.
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