Greater Manchester’s chief constable Peter Fahy has said that spending cuts in the force will inevitable lead to a cut back in services.
Talking to Radio 4′s PM programme he said that the force will protect community officers and forensic and scene of crime personnel.Instead the axe would fall on back room administration staff.
Fahy continued by saying that there needs to be a change of culture across not just the force but the public sector in general attacking the culture of “managerialism.”
Fahy-”There is no need for us to come and fingerprint your car when in the circumstances there is little chance that we will catch the culprits”
Police forces in England and Wales are bracing themselves for cuts of around 25 per cent after the Autumn spending review and with 85 per cent of forces budgets spent on salaries it seems inevitable that there will be job losses.
The programme was given access to a meeting of Manchester’s senior police yesterday and heard concerns about how going forward the force will deal with the reality of making job cuts amongst its civilian staff.
However Fahy is concerned about the effects of the forces ability to fight crime.He told the programme that there needs to be a conversation with the public about what is important.
There was some services he said that the public might think are essential which actually have little impact.