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A senior officer said police jobs will go if forces are required to make 12 per cent savings. Ian Johnston, president of the Police Superintendents' Association, was reacting to the situation that the Home Office, which funds the police, could be facing cuts of a quarter. "I personally think it's inevitable [that we will lose officers from the beat]," Mr Johnston told BBC Radio: "You can't take 12% out of any equation when 83% of your budget is on personnel, I think that, yes, we will be losing police officers and the sooner the police service accepts it and we get on with limiting the damage the better."

The top tier of National Health Service management is being axed since the coalition wants NHS administrator costs to be slashed by almost half over the next four years. All primary care trusts (PCTs) will be gone in three years’ time in order to save billions from the NHS budget. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley refused to give any guarantee that PCT staff (including clinicians, managers and administrators) would find similar jobs in the new set-up, where managing care will be the responsibility of family doctors. Much of the work is expected to be contracted out by GPs.
 

Issues such as public sector pay and pensions, and 25 per cent budget cuts across all governmental departments, mean the police are under scrutiny in terms of their performance and by how much the Home Office will trim their resources. North of the border, Chief Constable Colin McKerracher said 1,600 officers served the north east Grampian region, the highest number in the force's history. Mr McKerracher also highlighted his force continued to outstrip targets, including a year-on-year drop in anti-social behaviour by 12 per cent.

Police tracked down a criminal gang who moved from region to region in order to evade capture. The group roamed the west, north-west and Wales to rob cash machines, shops and homes. Officers are convinced their success in the Merseyside region preventing cash-in-transit robberies persuaded the two gang leaders to try their luck in Wales. Detective Chief Superintendent Adrian Erasmus, of Gwent police, said: “They were clearly very surprised the high level of our investigation here compared with what they were used to in Liverpool.”

Under a radical overhaul, Cardiff council has taken over the enforcement of most of the parking laws from South Wales Police as part of a wider transport strategy. To issue tickets on parking restrictions like yellow lines, a new team will consist of 35 on-street civil parking enforcement officers (CEOs) and four off-street CEOs, who will deal with council-run car parks. It will be headed by four senior CEOs and one team leader. There will be four response teams, who will be able to act immediately upon reports from the public about illegal parking.

Police had to be called in at least four places and voters staged sit-ins in protest at being denied their right to vote in the spring general election. In some cases local polling stations were said to have run out of ballot papers, while in others they were unable to get all those who wanted to vote into booths in time. There were reports of voters being turned away in many towns and cities (including Sheffield, Birmingham and Liverpool). According to the Electoral Commission, at least 1,200 people lost their votes on May 6. This is probably an underestimate because it is based on figures provided by returning officers and does not include Liverpool.

Petrol station crime in the UK costs nearly £50 million a year and could lead to an increase in the cost of fuel to motorists. A good proportion of this crime wave sweeping the country's forecourts includes drive offs – people driving away without paying for fuel, which makes up nearly a quarter of money lost to the industry. The penalties for this offence include a fine, a possible prison sentence, and the likelihood of having to pay compensation to the garage and the costs of the court.

As we currently bask in a hot summer spell it is tempting to leave windows open to cool the house down. But this is leading to a spate of burglaries. For example, thieves fled in a green Golf after stealing the keys from a home in Drayton, Hampshire, overnight. The car was later found abandoned with a punctured tyre on the nearby M275. Seventeen break-ins happened in one area in two days when temperatures peaked. Police warn that homes with alleyways at the side or back are particularly vulnerable. Residents are being urged to make sure windows and doors are properly locked every time they leave the house, go into the garden or to bed.

The provision of safety and security at summer music festivals – or indeed any public indoor or outdoor event – is paramount. For example, the Glastonbury Festival which finished last weekend, had just one reported crime per 440 people. Thefts from tents, 230, numbered the vast majority of crimes; and 117 people were arrested during the festival. Most were dealt with at the police's temporary custody unit at the Bath and West Showground. The policing approach of officers engaging with the public paid off.

Many organisations have formed to point out the problems faced by disabled people regarding provision of suitable toilets and to campaign for improvements. One of them was the charity ITAAL (Is There An Accessible Loo?), whose website www.cae.org.uk/itaal.html has been taken care of by the Centre for Accessible Environments for the past five years. The term 'disabled person' covers people with a wide range of disabilities and health conditions – and there are millions of disabled people in Britain.