Iain Wright – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain Wright on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide additional funding for Cleveland Police to assist in (a) retaining and (b) increasing the number of police officers in operation in Hartlepool constituency.

Damian Green

Like all parts of the public sector the police must play their part in
reducing the deficit and the vast majority of forces are rising to the
challenge of reducing costs, maintaining services and cutting crime.
Ultimately what matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them
there are and, in Cleveland, police recorded crime has fallen by 14 per cent
since 2010.