Chairman of organisation claims PSNI in deepest resourcing crisis since its inception
The chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland has called on the Government and the Stormont Executive to end their “shameful, penny-pinching betrayal of policing”.
The Stormont Assembly voted this week to back this year’s budget, although Justice Minister Naomi Long has previously warned that the allocation given to her department will have a detrimental impact on services.
He said: “This will make our ability to respond effectively nigh on impossible, and without positive intervention the crisis in policing will continue to get worse.
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