THE cost of police overtime has more than doubled to £411million a year under Labour because of the mountain of paperwork tying officers to their desks.
JUST nine people were punished under Labour's anti-hunting legislation in the first two years after it was introduced and none of them was part of an organised hunt.
POLICE officers were paid £412million in overtime last year - more than ten times what the Government saved by refusing to back-date their pay rise.
JUST nine people were punished under Labour's anti-hunting legislation in the first two years after it was introduced and none of them was part of an organised hunt.
DAVID Cameron last night condemned the "senseless'' and "remorseless'' violence in Britain today and promised to rid the police of its health and safety culture.
Police officers have become more jailers than crime fighters after figures yesterday revealed the number of prisoners held in police cells soared 13-fold in a year.
Almost 61,000 prisoners were locked in police cells last year to ease jail overcrowding -a 13-fold increase on 2006.
The number of prisoners held in police cells soared 13 fold last year.
A computer system intended to track offenders is to be scaled down after the costs of the project more than doubled in just six months to exceed Pounds 155m.
ALMOST 61,000 prisoners were locked in police cells last year to ease jail overcrowding -a 13-fold increase on 2006.