Derbyshire Constabulary Funding

EDM number 478 in 2006-07, proposed by Paul Holmes on 12/12/2006.

That this House applauds the work of the Derbyshire Constabulary and its achievements in cutting crime on a limited budget; acknowledges that the Government's spending formula for 2005-06 indicated that councils across Derbyshire should have received an extra £20.75 million of Government grant; recognises that the Derbyshire police force should have had an extra £5.2 million this year and £5.7 million next year; deplores the reduction in promised police community support officers for Derbyshire from 280 to 160; believes that over the next two years up to 2008 Government funding plans will require a further £6 million of under funding or cuts in Derbyshire police; considers that this funding level will require a reduction in police officer numbers, less resources for neighbourhood policing and reduced opportunities to make full use of advances in forensic science that would otherwise improve detection rates; and calls on the Government to stop siphoning funds away from Derbyshire to other councils around the country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.