Dorset Police: 80 more jobs to be axed (From Thisisdorset)
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Dorset Police: 80 more jobs to be axed
3:06pm Thursday 9th February 2012 in News
Dorset Police could face job cuts of the equivalent of 558 staff by March 2015 after a decision by Dorset Police Authority to accept a one-off government funding plan.
Three options had been placed before the Police Authority including a zero per cent rise in the police precept and therefore council tax, a 3.3 per cent rise or a 3.95 per cent rise.
Members of the board chose to take the government’s one-off Council Tax Protection Grant, which is equivalent to a three per cent rise in the precept.
Under projections made in a report presented by Chief Constable Martin Baker it was predicted that with a 3.95 per cent precept increase 478 full time equivalent jobs within the Dorset Police force would be lost.
The adoption of the grant means that an extra 80 could now be lost.
See Friday’s Echo for the full story.
