Sentence examples for force budget from inspiring English sources

The Home Office said "all necessary measures" would be taken to protect the UK's frontier, but conceded that the border force budget was still to be finalised.

Jones was elected to the £100,000-a-year post in November 2012 on a turnout in the West Midlands of only 12%, gaining the powers to hire and fire the chief constable and allocate the £546m force budget.

May also explained that Robbins had been unable to give an answer in his committee appearance last Tuesday because "in-year" changes were still under discussion in the Border Force budget.

May had been summoned to appear before the committee on Tuesday afternoon if she had failed to respond to Vaz's demands to know if the Border Force budget had been agreed amid Labour claims that it faced cuts of at least 6% this year.

The row over whether a senior civil servant should be required to disclose whether the border force budget has yet been agreed is particularly sensitive, as the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, has repeatedly claimed that May is hiding "dangerous cuts" in the frontier force.

As a result, the decision is likely to cause still more concern at the Pentagon and in Congress, since it will force budget planners to shift planned increases from other parts of the military budget to the areas Mr. Bush outlined today.

PCCs, who oversee policing and force budgets, were introduced in England and Wales by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

But alarms are only as good as the police who respond to them quickly, and a 20% cut in force budgets is likely to thin their ranks.

PCCs, which replaced existing police authorities in 41 force areas across England and Wales, were given powers to set force budgets and hire and fire chief constables.

Nick Herbert, who was a leading force behind the move to give elected individuals the power to hire and fire chief constables and set force budgets, said he was stepping down to focus on "new ideas".

Hartford has been down about 50 officers on a force that should be 420, according to the police union, New Haven also has been down about 50 on a force budgeted for 470 officers, and Bridgeport 30.