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2 March 2011
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Police officers are likely to face pay cuts as part of a drive to make savings in the service in England and Wales, the home secretary has indicated.
Theresa May told police leaders in London three-quarters of their budget - £11bn a year - was spent on wages, adding: "We have to look at pay."
The government is planning to cut its funding for the police by 20% by 2015.
A review of police wages and conditions will be published next week, and could consider cutting overtime payments.
Housing and travel allowances, shift patterns, and procedures for retirement and redundancy are also expected to come under the spotlight.
The home secretary told the meeting in Westminster on Wednesday: "To make savings in any organisation where pay packages are the biggest cost, we have to look at pay."
The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the review - carried out by former rail regulator Tom Winsor - was likely to be hard-hitting, and Mrs May's comments were an attempt to prepare the ground ahead of its release.
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Theresa May told police leaders in London three-quarters of their budget - £11bn a year - was spent on wages, adding: "We have to look at pay."
The government is planning to cut its funding for the police by 20% by 2015.
A review of police wages and conditions will be published next week, and could consider cutting overtime payments.
Housing and travel allowances, shift patterns, and procedures for retirement and redundancy are also expected to come under the spotlight.
The home secretary told the meeting in Westminster on Wednesday: "To make savings in any organisation where pay packages are the biggest cost, we have to look at pay."
The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the review - carried out by former rail regulator Tom Winsor - was likely to be hard-hitting, and Mrs May's comments were an attempt to prepare the ground ahead of its release.
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