Rejected petition We would like to increase the amount of police officers to reduce crime.

Whilst looking at research about crime we found that there has been a decrease of police officers in the UK. we found that we have lost more than 3000 police officers since 2003. the government has also taken out 1 billion pounds from the met police and youth services.

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we found the information from the guardian a newspaper we also found additional information on the BBC news. there has been a 9.2 increase of crime between July 2016 and July 2018. we also found people feel more scared by the recent spate of violence.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/220398

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Date submitted 25 September 2018
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