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  • 6 Aug 2018
    4m

    Farmers hit by rural crime wave, with insurer blaming police cuts

    If you live on a farm, chances are you’re a long way from police help. Figures released by the agricultural insurer NFU Mutual suggest farmers are bearing the brunt of a rise in rural crime, with organised criminal gangs stealing farm equipment to order. The firm says that rural areas have been particularly hard hit by cuts…

  • 30 Aug 2017
    6m

    Steve White: ‘We’ve cut too far too fast’

    After a three-year battle to shake up the Police Federation – Steve White has called it a day – announcing he’ll leave his post at the end of the year.

  • 20 Jul 2017
    2m

    Largest crime rise in a decade

    The largest rise in crime for a decade has been recorded in England and Wales, with the biggest increase in violent and sexual crime. This, as the Home Office revealed police numbers are at their lowest since 1985.

  • 4 Sep 2013

    FactCheck: Cooper’s claims on domestic violence cases

    By Emma Thelwell

    Yvette Cooper has attacked the government’s record on domestic violence – claiming that it is “failing badly”. Is she being fair to the boys in blue?

  • 8 Feb 2013

    Boris bluster can’t hide reality of police cuts

    By Patrick Worrall

    Boris Johnson has promised to “keep police numbers high” in the capital. But FactCheck discovers that officer strength is really at a five-year low.

  • 28 Dec 2012

    2012: A year of lying shamelessly

    By Patrick Worrall

    We take a look back at the lowlights of 2012 with damned lies and statistics coming thick and fast from across the political spectrum.

  • 14 Nov 2012

    FactCheck: the final word on police cuts

    By Patrick Worrall

    The effect of all this is to artificially make it look like there has been a real increase in neighbourhood policing.

  • 2 Jul 2012

    FactCheck: Back to the front line as police cuts bite

    By Patrick Worrall

    “The Met’s budget shortfall accounts for the lion’s share of a £302m gap nationally. It’s not clear where the money will come from and more job losses can’t be ruled out.”

  • 16 Aug 2011

    FactCheck: Police cuts and the magic shrinking numbers

    By Channel 4 News

    Eyebrow-raising statistics and verbal gymnastics from Theresa May as she insists police cuts are manageable. FactCheck investigates.

  • 15 Aug 2011

    FactCheck: London’s Met Police vs New York’s NYPD

    By Channel 4 News

    Boris Johnson doesn’t want America’s Supercop swooping down on the Met Police with his hard-line “zero tolerance” policies. But how does the NYPD with it’s hard-line tactics, compare to the London’s Metropolitan poilce?

  • 10 Aug 2011

    FactCheck counts the cost of the riots

    By Channel 4 News

    It is the police – not insurers – that will have to cover the lion’s share of these costs, FactCheck discovers.

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