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Who funds the police?
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Our colleague Dr Roger Grimshaw came across this interesting figure from a recent parliamentary briefing note on police funding in England and Wales.
It shows that Home Office grants only account for one third of police funding, with a significant portion - one quarter - coming from Council Tax payers.
We first identified the shift from national to local sources of police funding in our publication Police Expenditure, 1999 - 2009.