Policing | A Thin Blue Line

A recent study by the Police Federation highlighted that successive budget cuts since 2010 had led to 22,000 fewer officers and that the "once revered British model of policing is currently on its knees and facing extinction".

The unyielding axe to public spending has now spanned best part of a decade, an epoch where public sector leaders have been forced to consider ever-more inventive ways to do more with less, yet still deliver core services to their communities.