UK - Soaring policing costs - which have been blamed for fuelling council tax rises - are mainly due to pension costs, police forces claim.
The Audit Commission’s wide-ranging investigation into the reasons for this year’s record council tax increases identified police spending as “significantly in excess of government spending assumpt...
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