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I am sure most
will have noted the press stories that the Met have effectively closed their
doors to new recruits and now mainly recruit new constables from those
who have volunteered and served for a period of time as members of the
special constabulary. This effectively means that the training school
at Hendon will either be put into mothballs or perhaps even sold off.
With conservative estimates that 18,000 police jobs will be lost throughout
the country it is ironic that the spending review announced that the
cut to the police budget would concentrate on bureaucracy rather than manpower.
(from LPP, December 2010)
Don Ratcliffe
Chairman, London Branch
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