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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/labours-police-claims-dishonest.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Labour Party claims more than 10,000 police officers in England and Wales are to be cut over the next two years" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-labours-police-claims-dishonest.jpg" alt="The Labour Party claims more than 10,000 police officers in England and Wales are to be cut over the next two years"/></a></p>
<p>The Government has disputed Labour claims more than 10,000 police officers in England and Wales could be cut over the next two years.</p>
<p>Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the job losses, revealed in a party survey of police forces up and down the country, showed the &#8220;shocking and brutal reality&#8221; of the Government&#8217;s spending cuts.</p>
<p>Ms Cooper said the cuts were &#8220;only the beginning&#8221; as a third of forces had yet to announce reductions to their workforces.</p>
<p>&#8220;Far from protecting frontline policing as ministers promised, over 10,000 police officers are being cut in the next few years alone,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s 10,000 fewer police officers fighting crime, solving serious cases, or keeping our country safe.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cutting so fast and so deep into police budgets is crazy. It is completely out of touch with communities across the country who want to keep bobbies on the beat.</p>
<p>&#8220;Chief constables are being put in an impossible position. They are working hard to fight crime, but the Government is pulling the rug from underneath them.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Policing Minister Nick Herbert said he didn&#8217;t accept Labour&#8217;s claims, which he described as &#8220;totally dishonest&#8221;.</p>
<p>He told the BBC&#8217;s The World This Weekend that &#8220;de-bureaucratising&#8221; the police and handing officers discretion to deal with cases were just as important as numbers on the frontline if the Government wanted to reduce crime.</p>
<p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t accept Labour Party figures,&#8221; Mr Herbert said. &#8220;I think it is better to wait for official figures. We have never said we can guarantee police numbers and nor has the Opposition said that.</p>
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