APCC response to the police funding settlement

23/12/2024

Joy Allen, APCC Joint Finance Lead and PCC for Durham, said:

“Police and Crime Commissioners and Deputy Mayors recognise the financial constraints that the government is operating under. We also acknowledge the funding being given to partly cover the last year’s pay award in part, and ringfenced resources to invest in the government’s planned additional 13,000 neighbourhood policing officers. However, to fully fund the nationally agreed pay award and deliver other policing and crime priorities, the government’s expectation is that PCCs and their equivalents will apply the full policing precept permitted for 2025/26, by increasing council tax bills.

“Whilst the financial pressures will differ between force areas, we will all experience the impact on policing. PCCs will have to balance the need to respond to local policing and crime priorities with the wider financial pressures on the service and on households. 

“PCCs remain committed to delivering the best policing service to the public and to working with government to reform and improve policing.”

Roger Hirst, APCC Joint Lead for Finance and PFCC for Essex, said:

“This settlement is not enough to meet all of the pressures faced by policing. Exactly how much of a shortfall exists is still being worked out. 

 “Whilst the financial pressures will differ between force areas, I know from my own Force that it will mean reducing officer numbers. More generally, PCCs and PFCCs will have to balance the need to respond to local policing and crime priorities with the wider financial pressures on the service and on households.   

 “All PCCs and PFCCs remain committed to delivering the best policing service to the public and to working with government to reform and improve policing.” 

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