4:48pm Wednesday 8th September 2010
ESSEX'S Chief Constable said cuts in government financing could prompt hundreds of job losses.
Jim Barker-McCardle said Essex's policing budget could be cut by £45 million by 2015 - about a sixth - and warned that hundreds of jobs might go.
But he said cuts would give senior officers an opportunity to "challenge the way we do things" and forces would have to "rise up ... and slay the last breaths of the fire-breathing monster of bureaucracy".
Mr Barker-McCardle said ministers had proposed a 25% cut in government police grants earlier this year.
On that basis, he calculated that by 2015 Essex Police, which has an annual budget of nearly £270 million, could lose about £45 million in funding.
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