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Have Your Say on Police Funding |
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Good Afternoon,
Thank you so much to everyone who has already taken the time to complete the Police Funding survey. This will be our final reminder, and we really appreciate your support.
We are running a public consultation, and we would like to hear from you about what you are willing to pay towards the cost of policing in your community next year.
Of the £203 million we currently spend on Policing and Crime in Cleveland: £53m comes from your Council Tax payments The vast majority of the remaining £150m comes from the Government
To provide a similar level of service in 2026/27, it will cost around £10 million (5%) more because: We need to pay Police Officers and Staff more – this is expected to increase our costs by around £7 million. We need to pay higher non-pay bills such as insurance, and we are seeing higher costs of policing major incidents – this along with general price increases is expected to add costs of around £3m to our budget.
The consultation will ask residents to choose from a few options (e.g. extra £1–£2 a month) and tell us which policing issues matter most (anti-social behaviour, burglary, violence, etc.)
You may notice there is no option to freeze the policing precept, as this would result in: We currently forecast that the Government will provide around £5m of our increased costs, leaving us around £5m short for 2026/27. We will therefore need to increase the Police precept and deliver savings to meet this shortfall.
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PoliceFunding25-26/ This will take a minute to complete the survey. The closing date for the survey is 3rd January 2026.
Kind regards, OPCC Team
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