Have your say on Northumbria Police's share of your Council Tax
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Northumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner is asking for residents’ views on the level of the police precept.
The Government say Northumbria Police will receive central grant funding of £222.7m in 2017/18, a cash reduction of £3.0m.
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Hide AdThis figure can be increased to £259.6m in total funding for 2017/18 - but only if the police precept part of the Council Tax is raised by £5 per year for a Band D property.
If the precept is not raised by that amount there will be further cuts of up to £1.9m. This is in addition to the funding reduction of over 23% that Northumbria has suffered over the past five years.
In Northumbria people living in a band D property currently pay £93.33 per year for their police service. A £5.00 per year increase on that figure, as required by the Government, would mean an extra 10p a week.
Most residents in Northumbria have a band A property and for those the increase would be less than 7p a week (£3.33 for the full year).
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Hide AdPolice and Crime Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC, said “The Chief Constable and I are doing our very best to preserve the high standards of policing we are used to and we have looked at all options to save money to protect neighbourhood policing. I am therefore asking if people would be content to pay a maximum increase of 10p a week to minimise further cuts.”
People can email their views to [email protected] by January 22.