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"Asked how she was going to guarantee that police authorities will have sufficient funding to support this improvement at neighbourhood level, Ms Blears said: 'To get proper, good intelligence-led policing, people are going to have to look at the whole way they do business - from response to investigation to additional neighbourhood policing. Reconfigure and that is the way you will do it.'  She also said that there is a possibility a number of forces could be in place from April 2007 but if police authorities and forces will not voluntarily agree on the mergers there could be another year of delay. " [Sub Required]

 
