Essex Police plans to slash 110 support staff jobs, budget documents show. Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said government funding wasn’t enough to meet costs. “No-one would deny the enormous financial pressures facing the force, but it’s also impossible to deny that cuts on this scale will affect policing across Essex. “Support staff are the backbone […]
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Essex Police has announced plans to close all but four of its remaining front country contact points. Counters at Basildon, Braintree, Clacton and Harlow will close, while the force will remove police presence from shared counters in Maldon and Saffron Walden. It will leave on the desks at Chelmsford, Colchester, Grays and Southend open. Eastern […]
Essex Police should use extra government funding announced today to prevent the loss of its remaining police community support officers (PCSOs), says UNISON. All 99 PCSOs and 65 other police support staff were threatened with redundancy earlier this week, with the force saying it didn’t have enough funding from government. Cuts would pile pressure on […]