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: prisonlawinsideoutPolice spend £40m on 'spin doctors'
By John Hirst
And what is the message that is worth £40M? This, the country: "not only is safer, but feels safer, too".
The problem with that is it would not only feel safer but be safer if there was 1,400 more bobbies on the beat.
Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).
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