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Noose discovered in Hempstead
A noose was found hanging Friday morning in the men's locker room in the basement of the Hempstead Village police department, village police Chief Joseph Wing said.
Wing said he immediately summoned Nassau police detectives and requested a forensic team as well as internal affairs investigators to the scene. Wing said he also notified the district attorney's office.
"It's my intent if the evidence bears out to press for criminal and administrative departmental charges, which could lead to dismissal," said Wing, who is of Asian and Italian descent. "I find this action horr... Read more
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16 January 2007
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Cutbacks will lead to a fall i
Police chiefs will have to reduce officer numbers or shed civilian staff because of Government cutbacks in funding, a leading officer warned yesterday.
Tim Brain, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire and the finance spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said the latest three-year settlement for forces in England and Wales would fail to keep pace with rising police costs.
He said: "If you start pinching back on your income then you are going to have to cut back on your expenditure. Given the fact that we are a very people-intensive service, that inevitably means the people who deliver the job on the frontline. So, really, it's quite serious."
Between 2008 and 2010, the police will get an annual rise in funding of 2.7 per cent. The Home Office says that this, allied to efficiency savings, will be enough for forces to maintain a good service.
But Mr Brain maintains that police chiefs have already delivered some of the largest efficiency savings in the public sector.
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "The scope for efficiencies in the future … it's not that there aren't any, but they're far more limited than they have been in the past. And they certainly won't cover the budget deficit that we are seeing beginning this year but also increasing over the next few years."
Senior officers fear that funding cutbacks could have a significant impact on local policing, particularly the introduction of dedicated neighbourhood police teams — a central aim of the Government.
They suspect that, after five years of increased spending, which led to a high-water mark of more than 140,000 officers, forces are now entering a period of financial constriction which may see numbers slip towards 135,000.
Longer-serving chiefs point out that the police currently face more demand than ever for their services — with each new criminal justice bill creating more work — and, therefore, the above-inflation finding of recent years should continue.
The Police Federation chairman, Jan Berry, said: "We're having enough trouble at the moment keeping our heads above water. We warned the Government when we had an increase in the number of officers during 2000 to 2005 that unless they were able to make sure that investment stayed at that level it would have an effect on the visibility of policing and on anti-social behaviour."
However, the Home Office and Treasury have argued that chiefs have been give huge amounts of money — well over £10.5 billion a year — and should be able to spend it more efficiently.
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