Sir – Last week’s armed robbery of a bank in Oxford along with the latest crime figures which identify big rises in robberies and street crime surely bring into question the Government’s 20 per cent cut to police funding.
This is one area which all reasonable people agree shouldn’t be subject to over-zealous cuts especially when they’re proposing wasting £100m, the equivalent of 600 full-time police officers, on directly elected police commissioners.
The Conservative policy of cuts to police funding are damaging to our community and I call on Mr Cameron to rethink this reckless policy and protect our police.
Andrew Coles, Witney
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