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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/met-defeated-over-olympics-policing.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Scotland Yard bosses have admitted a goal to recruit 10,000 special constables to help police the 2012 Olympics is unattainable" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-met-defeated-over-olympics-policing.jpg" alt="Scotland Yard bosses have admitted a goal to recruit 10,000 special constables to help police the 2012 Olympics is unattainable"/></a></p>
<p>Scotland Yard bosses have admitted a goal to recruit 10,000 special constables to help police the 2012 Olympics is unattainable.</p>
<p>Senior officers were under pressure to treble the ranks of volunteers to help secure the sporting extravaganza.</p>
<p>But there have been concerns at the number of officers leaving their posts, as well as their professionalism and the cost of training them.</p>
<p>As a result, top Met officers have agreed to set their sights on signing up 6,667 officers by March 2012.</p>
<p>And they have warned the goal of amassing a 10,000-strong workforce may not even be reached three years later.</p>
<p>Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has been told the higher target, set by London Mayor Boris Johnson, was an &#8220;aspiration&#8221; and is &#8220;probably unachievable&#8221;.</p>
<p>He has agreed to draw £1.4 million from reserves to pay for the recruitment of specials after the Home Office cut funding.</p>
<p>The decision will be seen as a blow to Government plans for a revolution in volunteering across many parts of the public sector.</p>
<p>Ministers have said they want to &#8220;unlock the potential&#8221; of specials, and want to consider creating ranks of police reservists based on the Armed Forces model.</p>
<p>There are around 3,350 specials working in London on patrol and in some specialist units. They carry warrant cards and have the same powers as full-time colleagues.</p>
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