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Greater Manchester Police will lose a quarter of its staff, including front line officers, as it faces a £134m budget cut in the next four years.
Greater Manchester Police Authority (GMPA) said nearly 3,000 posts would have to be cut from its 12,000 staff.
The jobs earmarked to go are 1,557 civilian posts and 1,387 front line officers. A recruitment freeze is also planned for 2011-12.
The authority will discuss the proposals on 22 November.
They will be presented in a joint report from the Chief Constable Peter Fahy and the authority's treasurer.
"Protecting front line policing is at the heart of the plans we have been developing," Mr Fahy said.
"As the majority of our money is spent on staff it is inevitable that there will be an impact on our people."
The authority plans to cut 2,944 jobs over four years, with staff being offered voluntary redundancy.
It also plans to reduce management costs by 43% over the next four years.
By law police officers cannot be made redundant so GMPA expects the savings in front line officers to come from natural wastage, a recruitment freeze and forced retirement for officers with more than 30 years' service.
Three other police forces - North Wales, Strathclyde and Surrey - are also planning to implement forced retirement, an option open to them under regulation A19 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987.
Shadow Home Secretary Ed balls said the job losses went beyond the scale expected by the Police Federation, but that GMPA had been put in an impossible position by what he claimed were 20% cuts in government funding.
"Every police force in the country is now having to work out the implications of the deep and immediate cuts the Home Secretary has demanded," said Mr Balls.
"But by front-loading the cuts in the first two years, the Tory-Lib Dem government is making it even more difficult for forces to protect the front line by finding long-term efficiency savings.
"People are rightly concerned that cuts of this scale and speed will undermine the fight against crime and anti-social behaviour and take reckless risks with the safety of our communities."
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Chief Constable Peter Fahy has admitted the cuts would have an impact on policing Related stories
Greater Manchester Police will lose a quarter of its staff, including front line officers, as it faces a £134m budget cut in the next four years.
Greater Manchester Police Authority (GMPA) said nearly 3,000 posts would have to be cut from its 12,000 staff.
The jobs earmarked to go are 1,557 civilian posts and 1,387 front line officers. A recruitment freeze is also planned for 2011-12.
The authority will discuss the proposals on 22 November.
They will be presented in a joint report from the Chief Constable Peter Fahy and the authority's treasurer.
"Protecting front line policing is at the heart of the plans we have been developing," Mr Fahy said.
"As the majority of our money is spent on staff it is inevitable that there will be an impact on our people."
The authority plans to cut 2,944 jobs over four years, with staff being offered voluntary redundancy.
“Every police force in the country is now having to work out the implications of the deep and immediate cuts the Home Secretary has demanded”
Ed Balls Shadow Home Secretary By law police officers cannot be made redundant so GMPA expects the savings in front line officers to come from natural wastage, a recruitment freeze and forced retirement for officers with more than 30 years' service.
Three other police forces - North Wales, Strathclyde and Surrey - are also planning to implement forced retirement, an option open to them under regulation A19 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987.
Shadow Home Secretary Ed balls said the job losses went beyond the scale expected by the Police Federation, but that GMPA had been put in an impossible position by what he claimed were 20% cuts in government funding.
"Every police force in the country is now having to work out the implications of the deep and immediate cuts the Home Secretary has demanded," said Mr Balls.
"But by front-loading the cuts in the first two years, the Tory-Lib Dem government is making it even more difficult for forces to protect the front line by finding long-term efficiency savings.
"People are rightly concerned that cuts of this scale and speed will undermine the fight against crime and anti-social behaviour and take reckless risks with the safety of our communities."
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.