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Terrorism unsustainably straining UK police

The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has warned that the UK’s counter terrorism efforts are putting an unsustainable strain on policing. In a piece written on the NPCC website, Chief Constable Sara Thornton said that diverted resources were putting ‘extra strain on an already-stretched service’. For example, the Manchester Arena attack saw three quarters of the resources deployed came from mainstream policing, disrupting ‘he daily work of policing on which the public rely’. Additionally, diverted resources also creates a ‘backlog of incidents in control rooms and results in a slower response to the public’. The Conservatives cut funding to police and officer numbers in 2010 with then Home Secretary, Theresa May, ignoring protests and claiming crime had fallen despite the cuts.

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