And who cocked up the last attempt to reform the funding formula? Mike 'our reforms are working, crime is down' Penning. Since then it has been brushed under the carpet.

And who cocked up the last attempt to reform the funding formula? Mike 'our reforms are working, crime is down' Penning. Since then it has been brushed under the carpet.

So out of the 20:000 new recruits (if that target is met) 1800 will leave. That is a reaaly shocking wastage rate. Individual forces are much higher e.g. Northamptonshire who's attrition level is truly frightening.

The Home Office now claim that it is difficult to draw a link between "extra" officers and crime levels. They were quick enough to assert that there was no link between officer numbers and crime rates when the HMG directive was to make swingeing cuts.