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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/police-threaten-protests-over-jobs.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Police Federation chairman Paul McKeever has warned of protests over job cuts" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-police-threaten-protests-over-jobs.jpg" alt="Police Federation chairman Paul McKeever has warned of protests over job cuts"/></a></p>
<p>Officers could take to the streets to protest amid fears that policing could return to the &#8220;very bad days of the 1970s&#8221;, the Police Federation has warned.</p>
<p>Paul McKeever, chairman of the federation, which represents rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, said there would be at least 20,000 fewer officers within four years as a result of the Government&#8217;s spending cuts.</p>
<p>Cuts of this scale could see police take to the streets in protest, he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t rule anything out at all,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Certainly there are no plans in the short term. There are a number of reviews going on. We&#8217;re taking an active part in those before we decide whether we&#8217;re going to go. It might happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr McKeever told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: &#8220;We&#8217;re expecting to lose at least 20,000 officers over the next three to four years due to the financial situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The number of police officers, per 100,000 of the population, &#8220;will fall, if we lose 20,000, to a level below what it was in the very bad days of the 1970s when police forces were stretched&#8221;, he said.</p>
<p>Asked what he meant by the &#8220;very bad days&#8221;, Mr McKeever said: &#8220;It was in chaos. People were leaving in large numbers. Nobody wanted to stay because pay and remuneration were so poor.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was that bad that it was compulsory for police officers to work three of their rest days as overtime.&#8221;</p>
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