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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 11 March 2015.

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Photo of Jack Dromey Jack Dromey Shadow Minister (Home Affairs) 11:30, 11 March 2015

Seventeen thousand police officers have gone in this Parliament. Under the Chancellor’s spending plans, another 30,000 would go in the next Parliament. The outgoing president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned that it would no longer be possible adequately to protect the public from criminals or from the growing threat of home-grown terrorists. Is he right?