Chief Constable Jon Boutcher meets with UK PM in Belfast as North faces ‘wickedly difficult challenges’ across every public service front
UK prime minister Keir Starmer walks with Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Jon Boutcher during a visit to Garnerville Police training college in Belfast on Monday. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Pool/AFP via Getty’s budget crisis leaves the organisation “dangerously” unable to deal with threats, Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has said at a meeting with British prime minister
‘I thought Belfast looked very like rougher areas in the south of LA’: How international tourists see Ireland “What I am trying to do with every bone in my body is to explain the seriousness of the situation facing the PNSI’s numbers to everybody.” Illustrating the challenges facing the PSNI, he said police forces in Britain have seen their budget rise by a fifth, whileDescribing the PSNI as “the jewel in the crown” of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, Mr Boutcher said: “We can’t lose the gains that have been made, we can’t allow the PSNI to decay.”
“I think we held our own, but you saw how challenging it was for us to deal with the disorder. We have been so far left behind, and that has just got to stop,” he said, in some of his strongest public comments to date.
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