Liverpool, 29th November, 2014. Policing Black Friday Sales Weekend. City centre holiday shopping season, retail shops, stores, Christmas shoppers, discount sale shopping, and consumer spending on Black Friday weekend considered to be the biggest shopping event of the year. retailers have embraced the post-holiday sale bonanza, even though many customers were left surprised by wall-to-wall discounts in their favourite stores as some went bonkers for bargains. Liverpools business district,
Merseyside Police is the second most expensive force in England and Wales, behind only the Met in London. Figures published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) show it costs 64p a day for every person looked after by the force in order to keep Merseyside Police running. This works out at £ per person in the 2014/15 financial year and makes it the second most expensive force in the country. London’s Metropolitan Police was the most expensive force, costing each individual under its protection 88p a day. Merseyside Police also compares badly to the national average when it comes to cost reduction. Two years ago the force cost 65p a day per person to run, meaning that it has only dropped by since then. This is worse than the national average of a drop over the same period. Nationally, the average cost to run a police force was 55p in England and Wales in 2014/15. The statistics were published on the HMIC website along with the PEEL report examining how each force performs in the categories of efficiency, effectiveness and legitimacy. The report summary states: “Forces need to move from surviving budget reductions to thriving in a world of sustained cost reduction. “Efficiency is not something that forces should feel is imposed on them as a reluctant addition to policing. “It should run through all policing; that has always been the case. “Never before was it more important than it is today.” The same HMIC report also rated Merseyside Police as good at reducing crime – but said it needed to work harder to better serve victims, as previously reported. It said the force has “made good progress” in achieving the £60m savings it needs by March 2015 “while working hard to protect its frontline crime-fighting roles”. Merseyside’s Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy said: “HMIC’s first PEEL assessment confirms how effectively Merseyside Police is working.
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