Home Office ministers announce 12-month delay to reform after ‘unsuitable figures’ would possess left 31 police forces worse off A row over an attempted reform of the Whitehall funding formula for the police has descended into farce after Home Office ministers were forced to call a halt and announce a 12-month delay to the process.
The complex formula for funding the 42 police forces in England and Wales has been called “unclear,unfair and out of date” by ministers, and the reform has already been redrawn twice in the face of unprecedented threats of legal action, or first by inner-city forces and then by shire forces.
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Source: theguardian.com