More Tory cuts...

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We should be classified as third world at this point. Rising poverty, failing health service and now police forces.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39135300

Some police forces are putting the public at risk by rationing their response as they struggle with cutbacks, the police standards watchdog has warned.

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said some forces are "downgrading" 999 calls, in order to justify responding to them more slowly.

HMIC's report found that most of the 43 forces in England and Wales were providing a good service.

But that others have let victims down.

The inspectors said there are now too few detectives and in some areas an erosion of neighbourhood policing.

The former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir Peter Fahy, said that forces will have to do things differently in the future, if the government continues to ask them "to do more with less".