Council tax

Stretch said:
Is the increase for the Police and Crime Commissioner just a salary hike, or are their other expenses?
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It's directly adding funding to the police budget, although this may only reduce the cuts rather than actually stopping them. Many forces are actively cutting capability. Take Hampshire for example, we already share resources with Thames Valley Police, but we've lost all of our passive drugs dogs and the number handlers generally, cutting the number of officers on Roads Policing Unit, our Force Support Unit are gone as of end of April, Marine Unit may only last 1 more year, despite covering Southampton, Portsmouth and the whole of the Isle of Wight's coastline and ports. TVP are looking at commercial sponsorship to keep their horses. We regularly run out of units for 999 calls. Most people don't realise quite how bad it is.
 
West Sussex County Council 3.0% £1106.91
Adult Social Care Authority Precept (WSCC) 2.0% £64.45
Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex 7.8% £147.48
Mid Sussex District Council 3.2% £142.72
East Grinstead Town Council 4.8% £71.43
Overall 5.0%
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Most people don't realise quite how bad it is.
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I hardly ever see police here. Last year I drove from S on A to the borders of Scotland and only saw one police car during the whole journey.And that was in Scotland...
The village police station closed a couple of years ago, and is now houses.
 
County council +2.5%
Adult Social Care +2.0%
Council +4.6%
Police +5.6%
Parish -0.4
Total +4.5%

If we want garden waste taken we have to pay an extra £45 which you don't use in the winter and doesn't take enough in the summer.
 
Be glad you don't live in Greater Manchester where we now have an elected Mayor, so the police + fire portions of the council tax bill have skyrocketed. For no reason that I can understand anyway.

'GM Police and Crime Commissioner' has been renamed 'Mayoral Police and Crime Commissioner Precept' - 7.4% increase

'GM Fire and CD Authority' has been renamed 'Mayoral General Precept (including Fire services) - 13.4% increase

Taking the ****
 
Have not had a letter, but here under Salford City Council, in Manchester, there is a 4.99% rise in Social Care!
 
Ours is nearly 3k now. In other news the stupid Council complain of having no money at every opportunity and yet have spent £120,000,000 on the town centre. It's months late and £40,000,000 over budget already.

Go, Wokingham.
 
Moses said:
What's the actual impact on levels of crime, etc. That's the important thing. Say with the horses - a) how often are they actually needed, then b) is it a bad thing if the funding can be replaced through sponsorship? Presumably they're often deployed when football's on etc, but are they ever really needed? With the 999 call issue... is that because loads of idiots call 999, so the response can be slow because it's not an emergency... with genuine emergency 999 calls still be responded to in a reasonable time etc?
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The impact is that many crimes, especially volume crime, isn't investigated and when it is, it's dealt with by officers who are managing 20 or more similar cases at the same time. The detection rate on impactful crimes such as dwelling burglaries has declined. Serious crime is still getting focus, but even then it's taking resources from volume crime to keep that level of investigation.

As for horses, it's the whole risk vs impact argument. TVP share their horses with many other forces, only 16 out of the 34 forces have mounted officers. They are invaluable at high risk public order situations. If you lose that capability the impact to officer and public safety is significant. You just can't substitute it and get the same result. When you dont' have it officers get injured.

As for 999 calls, I'm talking about grade 1 (immediate response) calls. Calls that aren't emergencies either won't be deployed to full stop or will get a lower grading. I'm talking about ongoing fights etc where we we're sending someone the other side of the county with a 30+minute blue light run or even to the point where we simply have no deployable officers at all.
 
Ours don't seem so bad here in Shropshire.

Shropshire Council +3.0%
Adult Social Care +3.0%
Fire and Rescue +3.0%
Police and Crime Commissioner +3.9%
Parish Council +0%

I'd happily reduce the fire and rescue and increase the adult social care to be honest.
 
Cumbria County Council £838.79 +2.0%
Cumbria County Council* £49.30 +2.0%
Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria £155.16 + 5.4%
City Council £138.13 +2.5%
Annual Charge for Period £1181.38%
*The council tax attributable to Cumbria County Council includes a precept to fund adult social care.

I wouldn't give the coppers nothing, let them use the drug money from the odd bust and speed cams to manage their budgets.
 
Sandwell MBC

Council: 3.0%
Adult social care: 2.0%
West Mids Fire Service: 3.0%
West Mids Police and Crime Commissioner: 10.3%

Total: 5.3%


I thought they had to have a vote to increase by a certain amount. Its a joke to be honest. My wages wont go up by 5.3%.
 
Suffolk County Council non-adult social care charge £1,420.10 +3.0%
Adult social care precept £98.56 +2.0%
Police & Crime Commissioner for Suffolk £230.78 +6.8%
Suffolk Coastal District Council £198.33 +3.1%
Local parish council £56.04 +3.8%

Total charge (band E) £2,003.81 +5.0%

I guess we can see where those police pay rises, and the subsequent hike in pensions, are coming from.

The covering letter said thank for being one of the council tax payers not in arrears for the past 12 months. Hugs.
 
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