Government Reductions in Policing
Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]
6:51 pm
Theresa May (Home Secretary; Maidenhead, Conservative)
The right hon. Lady is making a lot out of the issue of police numbers. What would she say to Chief Constable Peter Fahy from Greater Manchester, who in January said to the Home Affairs Committee:
“The other issue has been political—if I can say it—almost an obsession with the number of police officers, which meant that we've kept that number artificially high. We have had lots of police officers doing administrative posts just to hit that number.”?