The Telegraph newspaper thundered on Sunday:

At least 12 of the 43 forces in England and Wales are reducing the number of full-time officers they employ, despite a pledge by the Government to protect law and order from the impact of public sector cuts.

This year alone will see a net decline of nearly 900 officers. Many of the affected forces will turn to special constables – who are unpaid volunteers – to plug the gaps.

Forces which will see officer numbers decline include Greater Manchester Police, where the total will fall by 300 this year according to a leaked document obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, and Britain’s largest force, the Metropolitan Police, which will shed 189 officers this year and a further 445 over the following two years.

The newspaper mentions the Met Police, but fails to mention London’s occasional Mayor Boris Johnson’s role in all this.

In fact, London politics blogger Adam Bienkov has pointed out that Boris was responsible for removing hundreds of police officers.

The policy was announced quietly as far back as December 2008 but the right-wing press has almost entirely failed to mention it.

Curiously, a Telegraph columnist who gets paid £250,000 a year and goes by the name of Boris Johnson was omitted from the story.

via Adam Bienkov

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