"police spending" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
For example, "The city government allocated more money for police spending this year."
Police spending to be cut by 16%.
He criticised the police spending as "quite striking.
The police spending review should be reopened now.
In 2012 alone he has pushed through a 33% rise in defence, security and police spending.
She said police spending would be protected over the next four years "when local income is taken into account".
The announcement took the Commons by surprise as he had been widely expected to order further reductions in police spending.
After the arrest, the police spent more than eight hours searching the apartment, neighbors said.
As well as the houses in Barton Hill police spent hours searching a property in the Southmead area of Bristol.
Last year the police spent days scouring a ship which he insisted was stuffed with drugs, and found nothing.
At present police spend 36% of their time on the street, according to the inspectorate.
Police spend around £1bn a year on information technology, yet there is no real digital strategy.
