Talk to colleagues, friends and family
If we want a safe society, we must have a properly funded police service. It takes many police staff to keep an officer on the beat; so cutting police staff makes no sense. It is simply not safe to cut police staff by 19% and we need to make sure everyone knows it.
Everyone is experiencing the cuts in their own workplace, but not everyone knows that it’s going on across the country. Talk to your colleagues, your friends and your family; make sure everyone is informed.
Spread the word online
UNISON knows how important police staff are, and that these cuts are damaging. Let’s make sure everyone else does too.
Share online:
- This is why police staff are vital and shouldn’t be cut – share this film
- Police staff jobs have been cut by 19% between 2010 and 2013, as a result of government funding cuts. That’s 15,000 fewer police staff keeping communities safe
- Between 2010 and 2013 3,500 police community support officers (PCSOs) lost their jobs. PCSOs make up 75% of Neighbourhood Policing Teams, so communities are being put at risk
- Cuts to police staff workforce are causing stress levels to rise and morale to fall, as fewer police staff are forced to take on the work of those colleagues made redundant
- Cuts to police staff have led to some police forces putting volunteers into sensitive operational roles to replace redundant police staff