CHIEF IN PLEDGE TOfront-line officers
Police chiefs will do all in their power to protect front- line officers, their professional body pledged.
North Yorkshire Police Chief constable Grahame Maxwell, the Association of Chief Police Officers’ (Acpo) lead for finance and resources, said: “It is incumbent on chief officers to do all in our power to ensure that we protect the front line of the service... this mission is clearly understood and we are fully committed to it.
“However, the reality is that the scale of cuts currently being discussed is so significant that ’protecting the front line’ cannot mean ’maintaining the front line at current levels’.