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Police Reform

Put that there had been allegations this morning that Government had been briefing against the police, the PMS said that the Home Secretary had made one of many speeches on police reform last week, and had been clear that we were going to look hard at police pay and conditions because they constituted 75% of police costs.

The PMS also said that the review we commissioned some time ago on police pay was being published today and we would reflect on its conclusions. There would be a process that followed on from our consideration of the report and there would have to be a negotiation with the police on that. We had been upfront about the size of the deficit and the fact we had to tackle it. Each department had to play its role in that, and when we were looking at police costs we would look very hard at police pay and conditions as they made up 75% of costs.

Asked if the Prime Minister wanted to express how much he appreciated what the police did on the frontline, the PMS said that the police did a very difficult job and we were very appreciative of everything they did. We had a deficit that we had to tackle, and finding savings in police costs had to be part of that. We intended to cut out wasteful spending; improve the efficiency of the police; and ensure that police officers spent as much time out on the beat as possible. We could not get away from the fact that we had to look at pay and conditions as they made up the majority of police costs.

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