The government has today (Thursday 13 July) announced that they have accepted the recommendations of the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) to increase officer pay by 7 per cent.

The government have announced today that the amount of funding available to the policing system for 2020 to 2021 will increase by more than £1.1 billion.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Spending Round to Parliament earlier today, and laid out his plans for policing.

In 1974 my predecessor as West Midlands Chief Constable, Sir Derrick Capper, faced a sustained UK IRA bombing campaign with 6,842 police officers.  Forty years later and after a horrific series of attacks in London and Manchester, I face a modern terror threat with 6,600 officers – a number that has already fallen by close to 2,000 and is set to fall further.

Following the release of the Home Office’s latest police procurement data, our finance lead believes that transparent benchmarking of procurement data is an important part of securing value for money for the public. 

The Policing Minister has today confirmed the provisional police funding formula 2016/17.  NPCC says that the reduction in budget is significantly lower than we’d been expecting but that we remain committed to reform and forces will still have to find savings

The NPCC has today responded to the Home Affairs Committee Report, Reform of the Police Funding Formula.

The financial situation is better than we expected but that does not negate the need for change.   Today we're holding a summit with all chiefs and PCCs hosted by the Home Secretary to discuss how we develop specialist capabilities, like armed policing, cyber units or teams tackling serious organised crime, on a shared basis to save money and improve services to the public

We are delighted on behalf of the public with the announcement made by the Chancellor that police budgets will not be cut over the course of this Parliament.

The NPCC will continue working with the Home Office to help them develop a fair police funding formula

The Public Accounts Committee has put forward "intended to address what must be seen as a significant failure by the Home Office to provide Commissioners and senior officers with the tools they need to run their forces"

Chief officers have said that improved procurement, on its own, is not enough to cope with the challenges facing UK policing. Fundamental change will be needed.