Shadow Home Secretary slams Labour over police cuts

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp accuses Labour of wasting money and cutting police numbers, risking the Conservative legacy of a record police officer headcount and halving crime.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think the Labour government have made terrible choices. They're wasting money on many things and

00:04failing to properly fund things like the police. Already we see police numbers falling. The

00:10Metropolitan Police are going to effectively shrink by one and a half thousand police officers

00:14this year. You know, the Conservatives in government, when I was police minister,

00:17delivered record ever numbers of police officers. Headcount went from 146,000 in 2010 to 149,000,

00:25in fact 149,769 to be precise, on the 31st of March last year. So crime halved and record police

00:32numbers, that was the Conservative legacy, but Labour is putting that at risk by not giving

00:37the police enough money and that means police numbers are falling.

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