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Stonehedge in reply to @tbc

Crime and Policing is one of the areas devolved to the London Mayor and overseen by the GLA. I think this means he can set budgets and priorities for the Metropolitan Police.

I think this is only partially true. 80% of his policing budget comes from the government from what I have read, and that part has been cut by about £800m in recent years.

The other 20% has to come from council tax revenues etc which as I understand it he has increased by the maximum legally permissible amount every year in recent times to divert to the police budget.

Not certain of this info, but that is my understanding.

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tbc in reply to @Stonehedge

Of course - he can only budget with what he is given, I think he just decides on the allocation of very limited resources.

I didn't mean to use the "deceptive Tory" line of reasoning of blaming local authorities who have cut spending when their funding has been cut drastically.

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