Police chiefs have been defending cuts to Police Community Support Officers numbers in the county as a 5.41% increase in the force’s share of its council tax precept was approved.
Mr Jones told councillors; “The challenges are, that while providing the largest budget we’ve ever seen for Lincolnshire Police, the force are not immune to the same challenges that every one of our households and every resident is facing whether that’s increasing fuel costs, heating costs or other pressures.”
“The PCSO decision is a really hard decision, it’s not one I would have taken had l been able to do something different. Where PCSOs will disappear from is not yet known, Mr Haward told the panel, as the full model had not yet been confirmed.
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