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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/police-cuts-package-approved-by-mps.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Policing Minister Nick Herbert described cuts of 20 per cent to budgets as 'challenging'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-police-cuts-package-approved-by-mps.jpg" alt="Policing Minister Nick Herbert described cuts of 20 per cent to budgets as 'challenging'"/></a></p>
<p>MPs have approved a package of police cuts which Labour says will see at least 10,000 officers axed from England and Wales.</p>
<p>The Policing Minister Nick Herbert described the cuts of 20% as &#8220;challenging&#8221; but insisted that they were &#8220;manageable&#8221; over four years and the service to the public could be &#8220;maintained and indeed improved&#8221;.</p>
<p>But Labour claims the cuts, which were approved by 302 votes to 216, will mean at least 10,000 officers will go under the Government&#8217;s plans which start this year and run until 2015.</p>
<p>The vote, which saw the Government maintain a majority of 86, came as an opinion poll published in the Evening Standard showed 46% of the public think the cuts will lead to a &#8220;successful terrorist attack&#8221;. The poll also found 65.3% thought crime would rise and 71.6% expect anti-social behaviour to go up.</p>
<p>Mr Herbert told MPs the budget for Olympic security had been &#8220;prioritised&#8221; and up to £600 million would remain available although the Home Office expected it to come in at £475 million. The money needed for new police and crime commissioners did not come out of force budgets, he added.</p>
<p>And he repeated his call to forces to radically alter back office functions, which could even see control rooms and custody suites run by private companies. He told MPs: &#8220;I accept that the settlement is challenging but the Government believes it is manageable.</p>
<p>&#8220;If savings are made in the right areas the police service to the public can be maintained and indeed improved.&#8221;</p>
<p>But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper condemned the &#8220;crazy scale and pace of the cuts&#8221; which she said were the &#8220;biggest in a generation&#8221;.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;The Government is taking a gamble with crime and policing just as they are taking a gamble with the economy.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are cutting too far and too fast, they are risking economic growth, risking jobs and now risking public safety and the fight against crime.&#8221;</p>
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