http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1058-1948204,00.html
Alice Miles
"The Home Office is proposing a major police reorganisation likely to cost half a billion pounds: half a billion which could pay for 5,000 new police officers, or at least a nice pay rise for PC Adams. In the Commons on Monday, in a fierce argument about the plan to amalgamate England and Wales?s 43 police forces into 12 to 20 larger forces, the Home Secretary Charles Clarke denied that the move will undermine neighbourhood policing. Yet it must at best distract from it. "
