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4:30pm Thursday 9th February 2012 in News
By Catherine Pye, Reporter
LANCASHIRE Constabulary has won its fight to increase the council tax precept by 2.5 per cent, rather than taking a one-off £2million government grant.
Members of the Lancashire Police Authority (LPA) voted to increase the precept by £3.66 by a majority of 12 to four, after hearing that accepting the grant would increase deficits in the future.
Lancashire Constabulary has to make £42million savings over four years as part of Government cut backs.
By March – two years into the scheme – £33million cuts will already have been made, and constabulary bosses will know where a total of £39million is coming from.
But a further £4million cuts need to be found, something Chief Constable Steve Finnigan said would increase to £5.7million by 2013/14 if the grant was taken, because of a lower council tax baseline.
Raising the precept by 2.5 per cent will generate another £1.7million income.
He said: “If the £4million becomes £5.7million, then I will have to make cuts to the front line. Don’t break the business.
There is a real fragility in departments of the constabulary that could end up being broken if we’re not careful.”
Member Amanda Webster said: “If we take the grant we are cheating the people of Lancashire. It is not ‘free money’. We have got to support the police by not taking any more money out.”
Opponents, including Conservative members of the LPA, said the public would be “miffed” that a grant was being refused, and it wasn’t certain that the grant would not be repeated next year.
County Coun George Wilkins said: “We have a moral responsibility to accept the grant and live within our means.”
After the vote was taken, Chief Constable Finnigan said he was please and that the 2.5 per cent increase was “for the best for the communities of Lancashire.”
He said: “The grant was here-today-gone-tomorrow and although it would bring in £300,000 more in one year, that would then have to be paid for in subsequent years.”
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makaveli96
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4:36pm Thu 9 Feb 12
makaveli96
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4:39pm Thu 9 Feb 12
makaveli96
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4:49pm Thu 9 Feb 12
wulver
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6:26pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Mikeee47
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7:28pm Thu 9 Feb 12
psch
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8:59pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Lifeinthemix
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10:36pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Rumpole
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12:58am Fri 10 Feb 12
halfhearted
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8:14am Fri 10 Feb 12
Lifeinthemix
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8:28am Fri 10 Feb 12
Accy Phil
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9:16am Fri 10 Feb 12
retsofad
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11:55am Fri 10 Feb 12
wulver
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12:15pm Fri 10 Feb 12
Lifeinthemix
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5:50pm Fri 10 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF
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10:27pm Sat 11 Feb 12
psch wrote:You are a complete pr1ck.
Disgusting action.
Are you going to get your lazy staff to work for a change.
Are you going to sack the skivers on the sick
Cha'mone MF
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10:32pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Mikeee47 wrote:That's right, Cops are robots and don't need to eat. And when they finish work they get put in a locker and have a power cable stuck up their ar*e to re-charge them.
Does that mean they'll attend when you phone them, and not 4 days later or after they finish their KFCs. Somethings never change, no doubt they'll still hound the easy target THE MOTORIST
Cha'mone MF
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10:36pm Sat 11 Feb 12
wulver wrote:Do you have a lunch break where you work?....... Oh yeah thats right, you don't work, you're one of the unwashed masses who loves to claim that your a hard working "taxpayer".
Unbelievable !!! That's a few more vehicles to go shopping in WORKS time and visit more DRIVE THRU'S......
Rumpole
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10:44am Sun 12 Feb 12
wulver
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1:12pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF
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9:21pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Rumpole wrote:Why do my comments have to make me a cop?
Cha'mone MF must be a copper to make comments like that.
Maybe if you numpty police had the balls to tackle crimes committed by those at the top end of society, i.e. bankers, politicians, councillors, solicitors etc. then there wouldn't be so much crime at the bottom end of society.
But then again, they haven't got the brains to carry out an investigation into those at the top, even when someone else does the hard work in collecting the evidence for them and hands it to them on a plate.
Cha'mone MF
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9:24pm Sun 12 Feb 12
wulver wrote:Another whinging bellend that's just got three points on his licence.
Well said Rumpole, I totally agree with every word and as for Chamone MF, well we all know what MF stands for dont we lol, enough said !!!
Cha'mone MF
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9:27pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF wrote:"Apples in the barrel", not apes. That would just be wrong.
Rumpole wrote:Why do my comments have to make me a cop?
Cha'mone MF must be a copper to make comments like that.
Maybe if you numpty police had the balls to tackle crimes committed by those at the top end of society, i.e. bankers, politicians, councillors, solicitors etc. then there wouldn't be so much crime at the bottom end of society.
But then again, they haven't got the brains to carry out an investigation into those at the top, even when someone else does the hard work in collecting the evidence for them and hands it to them on a plate.
Far from it. I'm just an ordinary member of the public who thinks that under the circumstances the Police so the best they can in very challenging times and an increasingly difficult society. They make colossal f*ck ups from time to time and have bad apes in the barrel, of course they do. But the same could be said about every other profession. The problem is that somebody has to enforce the laws of this land regardless of what you think of them. The reason why people like you don't like the cops is that you don't like being told off for doing wrong. You were probably the same at school and the same with your parents, you don't like authority. Well I've got news for you, somebody has to do it and if you don't like the way that the Police "Police" this country then why don't you f*ck off to North Korea or Syria and see how you like it there.
Try and have a bit of respect for those who are there to look after you. If your house got burgled or you got filled in you'd be on the blower to the cops demanding help wouldn't you?
wulver
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11:31am Mon 13 Feb 12
Rumpole
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1:04pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF wrote:You're right, somebody does have to enforce the laws of the land but it wouldn't be so bad if they enforced the law equally across the whole of society instead of just the drivers and farmers.
Rumpole wrote:Why do my comments have to make me a cop?
Cha'mone MF must be a copper to make comments like that.
Maybe if you numpty police had the balls to tackle crimes committed by those at the top end of society, i.e. bankers, politicians, councillors, solicitors etc. then there wouldn't be so much crime at the bottom end of society.
But then again, they haven't got the brains to carry out an investigation into those at the top, even when someone else does the hard work in collecting the evidence for them and hands it to them on a plate.
Far from it. I'm just an ordinary member of the public who thinks that under the circumstances the Police so the best they can in very challenging times and an increasingly difficult society. They make colossal f*ck ups from time to time and have bad apes in the barrel, of course they do. But the same could be said about every other profession. The problem is that somebody has to enforce the laws of this land regardless of what you think of them. The reason why people like you don't like the cops is that you don't like being told off for doing wrong. You were probably the same at school and the same with your parents, you don't like authority. Well I've got news for you, somebody has to do it and if you don't like the way that the Police "Police" this country then why don't you f*ck off to North Korea or Syria and see how you like it there.
Try and have a bit of respect for those who are there to look after you. If your house got burgled or you got filled in you'd be on the blower to the cops demanding help wouldn't you?
Cha'mone MF
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4:33pm Mon 13 Feb 12
wulver wrote:Now did that really happen or are you sensationalising your version of events in Oder to give yourself a more credible platform to shout from.
Ha ha deary me Chamone, you're certainly pro police. Your latest comments are a bit better but still far from the mark and as for the Jeremy Kyle and Tennents super strength quips, I'm sure they were said to get a response. The reasons why I made comments are because not long ago we had a police response after some young lad tried throwing a brick through our window and when I caught him and phoned the police as you're told to do, I was told by a WPC and I quote " to roll my neck in or I would be arrested " and that is the reason why I made my comments. At least when we complained to her superiors, a very nice seargeant came round and apologised. I do stand by the comments made earlier about shopping as weve seen them and followed them round Tesco's on a few occasions. Last but not least Chamone, have a nice day.
Cha'mone MF
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4:46pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Rumpole wrote:So they target nobody but farmers and drivers do they? That one sentence sums up how narrow minded you are in your views on this subject.
Cha'mone MF wrote:You're right, somebody does have to enforce the laws of the land but it wouldn't be so bad if they enforced the law equally across the whole of society instead of just the drivers and farmers.
Rumpole wrote:Why do my comments have to make me a cop?
Cha'mone MF must be a copper to make comments like that.
Maybe if you numpty police had the balls to tackle crimes committed by those at the top end of society, i.e. bankers, politicians, councillors, solicitors etc. then there wouldn't be so much crime at the bottom end of society.
But then again, they haven't got the brains to carry out an investigation into those at the top, even when someone else does the hard work in collecting the evidence for them and hands it to them on a plate.
Far from it. I'm just an ordinary member of the public who thinks that under the circumstances the Police so the best they can in very challenging times and an increasingly difficult society. They make colossal f*ck ups from time to time and have bad apes in the barrel, of course they do. But the same could be said about every other profession. The problem is that somebody has to enforce the laws of this land regardless of what you think of them. The reason why people like you don't like the cops is that you don't like being told off for doing wrong. You were probably the same at school and the same with your parents, you don't like authority. Well I've got news for you, somebody has to do it and if you don't like the way that the Police "Police" this country then why don't you f*ck off to North Korea or Syria and see how you like it there.
Try and have a bit of respect for those who are there to look after you. If your house got burgled or you got filled in you'd be on the blower to the cops demanding help wouldn't you?
I currently have no respect for the police and can't see that changing until they do a complete job and not just the selective policing that they do at the moment!
Cha'mone MF
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4:47pm Mon 13 Feb 12
wulver
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6:02pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF
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7:28pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Rumpole
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9:45pm Mon 13 Feb 12
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makaveli96 says...
4:35pm Thu 9 Feb 12
"I'm too drunk, you get in."