Football clubs should pay their matches in the UK to pay a cost of £ 70 million of policing, the head of the Metropolitan Police has told the BBC.
The country’s most senior police officer Commissioner Sir Mark Rowle asked why the organizers of the incidents need policing to support their safety, do not pay for it, and said that there should be “more pollutant payment approach”.
Sir Mark’s comments came when he called for the construction of 12 to 15 big police forces as part of his plans for radical police reforms.
He said with The BBC’s Laura Kunsberg program on Sunday that the current models of 43 forces across England and Wales need to be reduced to deal with increased demand and overseas funding.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an increase of 2.3% annual funding for policing in England and Wales in a review of last month’s expenditure. Many forces have criticized money as “distant” fall.
Sir Mark said that reforms would help police forces, including Mates, “Use the money we have received”.
As part of funding concerns, the commissioner also cited a cost of £ 70 million of policing football in the UK, most of which are spent in Premier League matches in England.
“Why the organizers are not paying for it rather than local communities, who lose their resources to go into football matches?” He said.
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Write The Sunday TimesSir Mark suggested that the number of police forces need to be reduced by two-thirds and said that large forces would be better in using modern technology.
He said the 43-form model designed in the 1960s was not “fit” for at least two decades and obstructed the “effective conflict of today’s dangers”.
Speaking to the BBC, the commissioner referred to an “invisible spaghetti” behind the police forces who were responsible for “sucking resources and costs”.
He said, “Many small forces can not really do all services locally and they are clubs together and run complex collaboration,” he said, “with” big local forces and a national body “they can” cut “with that cost and waste.
The commissioner was questioned by Kunsberg to advance the possibility of improving the possibility of improvement, mentioning similar labor plans in 2006, which was dropped after significant opposition.
Sir Mark said the reform was “necessary”, saying that the expenditure on policing and public safety has reduced considerably in the last decade or more.
He said, “I am not seeing that dramatically is changing. We have got the best use of every pound that the government can give us,” he said.
Tell him that he had warned that he would have to eliminate some crimes, and asked what the force would not investigate, Sir Mark said: “So I do not want the police activity out of the list, and I know that the Mayor and Home Secretary have worked hard for the most police funding that we can get.
“We are firm to improve the experiences of London on the streets. We can only do that if we focus on the police work brutally.”
