:00:05. > :00:07.Hello. Tonight, an Inside Out special from the control room at
:00:07. > :00:10.Derbyshire police headquarters. A shrinking workforce, police
:00:10. > :00:18.stations closing and a black hole in the budget. We've asked former
:00:18. > :00:22.Head of Crime, Tony Blockley, to investigate. What is morale like in
:00:22. > :00:27.Nottinghamshire? We feel like we are getting a kicking from all
:00:27. > :00:29.corners. The level of cuts we are facing in Nottinghamshire, it
:00:29. > :00:38.threatens our services in the way it doesn't elsewhere.
:00:38. > :00:41.And can computers replace coppers? Are you available for a shoplifter?
:00:41. > :00:51.I get a close-up view of the new technology that's keeping police in
:00:51. > :01:01.the picture. This is a fantastic arresting tool. People are getting
:01:01. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.arrested on a daily basis as a result of having this technology.
:01:16. > :01:19.The police are facing their biggest financial challenge in a generation.
:01:19. > :01:23.Budgets are being cut by 20% over four years in a drastic plan aimed
:01:23. > :01:25.at saving millions. So, a year into those cuts, how are our forces
:01:25. > :01:28.coping? In a moment I'll be speaking to Derbyshire's Chief
:01:28. > :01:30.Constable, Mick Creedon. But first, his former Head of Crime, Tony
:01:30. > :01:40.Blockley, investigates the impact on frontline policing in the East
:01:40. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:50.It's one of the toughest jobs there is. Enforcing law and order on our
:01:50. > :01:53.streets. And keeping the public safe. I know because for 30 years I
:01:53. > :02:03.did it in Derbyshire. I've been a police constable working with the
:02:03. > :02:06.
:02:06. > :02:09.community. A detective solving murders. And finally before
:02:09. > :02:13.retiring, I was Head of Crime at the force. There's a minicab in the
:02:13. > :02:16.middle of the road and it looks like there's a body dumped in the
:02:16. > :02:20.back. There's lots of blood. Oh, my God. There's a man, he's in the
:02:20. > :02:23.boot, the whole of the back window is smashed in and there's a body in
:02:23. > :02:27.the back of it. Stuart Ludlum was married with three children. They
:02:27. > :02:35.found him here, adjacent to these two white cars in his taxi and his
:02:35. > :02:40.taxi was in the middle of the road. The first is from his children. It
:02:40. > :02:43.says, "To the best dad in the world, love you millions and billions".
:02:43. > :02:48.took nine months to convict Colin Cheetham of his murder. It was the
:02:48. > :02:51.last case I worked on before retiring. At its peak there were
:02:51. > :03:00.over 100 officers working round the clock. But things have changed
:03:00. > :03:02.since then. The money's dried up. Policing is facing huge financial
:03:02. > :03:06.challenges because of budget cuts. It means perhaps reducing staff
:03:06. > :03:13.numbers. How will that affect our ability to fight crime? And what do
:03:13. > :03:16.people think about what's happening? Do they even know?
:03:16. > :03:23.have there's a policeman walking down here and you have got some
:03:23. > :03:29.thug going to beat an old Lady, they will think twice if there is a
:03:29. > :03:34.copper round. If he sees nothing, he will do what he likes. The other
:03:34. > :03:41.evening because of a disturbance, it took the police about an hour to
:03:41. > :03:48.get there. It is a sign of the times. All down to the cutbacks. I
:03:48. > :03:50.Over the next five years Nottinghamshire has to save at
:03:50. > :04:00.least �42 million, Derbyshire �24 million and Leicestershire �28
:04:00. > :04:03.
:04:04. > :04:06.million. How are they going to do it? For a start, they will have to
:04:06. > :04:10.work together. Five suspicious deaths over a space
:04:10. > :04:14.of just six days. But these weren't all in Derbyshire. And how the
:04:14. > :04:20.police went about solving them was very different to when I was in the
:04:20. > :04:24.force. $NEWLINE It was 16th October on a Sunday morning that I got a
:04:24. > :04:29.call to come into work but then I was told I was coming to Derby and
:04:29. > :04:33.not my usual station in Nottingham. Now it's not just waiting for a
:04:33. > :04:36.murder to happen in Nottingham. We could go at eight in the morning to
:04:36. > :04:41.my station and it could be, "All right, Donna, you're going to
:04:41. > :04:43.Northamptonshire today, there's Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire's
:04:43. > :04:51.homicide units have now merged with Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and
:04:51. > :04:55.Northamptonshire in order to save money. One of the benefits is every
:04:55. > :05:04.time I have an officer from one force to another, it means a local
:05:04. > :05:07.detective or a local cop is working on other work, ie. They're dealing
:05:07. > :05:16.with a local burglar, or anti- social behaviour, they're not drawn
:05:16. > :05:20.onto a homicide enquiry for several months. Is it working? I cannot
:05:20. > :05:25.give the facts and figures but what other projects as it allowed to
:05:25. > :05:28.happen? Bear in mind this is just one. There out of the project were
:05:28. > :05:31.forces are looking to work together in partnership and collectively we
:05:31. > :05:34.will save money individually and as a region.
:05:34. > :05:36.Between March this year and March 2015 it's estimated that
:05:36. > :05:43.collaboration will save Derbyshire �10.7 million, Nottinghamshire,
:05:43. > :05:47.�9.5 million and Leicestershire �5.7 million.
:05:47. > :05:49.I think that sends a real positive message, it's positive in the way
:05:49. > :05:52.it's working, it's positive in what it's achieving, it's saving money,
:05:52. > :05:55.it's giving the public a better service, it's releasing officers
:05:55. > :06:05.back, or not taking officers away and I think overall it's got a real
:06:05. > :06:06.
:06:06. > :06:14.But I wonder what's happening in Nottinghamshire. Because it's
:06:14. > :06:19.having to make the biggest savings It's been three weeks since this
:06:19. > :06:23.police station in Sherwood was closed to save money. Not
:06:23. > :06:27.everyone's aware that it's gone. pressed the bell and obviously no-
:06:27. > :06:37.one came. I didn't realise that it had even closed. Nobody informed us
:06:37. > :06:39.
:06:39. > :06:42.at all. Luckily a volunteer is on hand to take the details.
:06:42. > :06:45.I see the crime figures. I'm a police vetted volunteer, I see the
:06:45. > :06:48.crime figures for the entire county and Sherwood has been the safest
:06:48. > :06:51.place to be in the city of Nottingham for the last few years,
:06:51. > :06:54.thanks mainly to Ivan's efforts and the committee and the people
:06:55. > :06:58.involved and that has changed in the last two weeks. It seems to be
:06:58. > :07:08.that the word's going out that it's a soft touch but I can assure you
:07:08. > :07:15.it's not. We have had thousands of pounds go from the bank. Two behind
:07:15. > :07:23.the shop and we have worked so hard to get graffiti taken out of show,
:07:23. > :07:28.Sherwood's lucky to have such a strong Neighbourhood Watch. But
:07:28. > :07:31.it's station is not the only one to close. It's one of 12 to go like
:07:31. > :07:36.this one in Kimberley. So, Chris, how many incidents were reported at
:07:36. > :07:39.Kimberley police station? Last year, 16. In total? In total in the year.
:07:39. > :07:42.16 times when a member of the public came in and reported
:07:42. > :07:52.incidents to us in the police station here. It's less than two a
:07:52. > :07:57.
:07:57. > :08:00.month. Yes, that is right. Can we afford to keep police stations like
:08:00. > :08:03.this working when we can provide an alternative in the local area for
:08:03. > :08:07.neighbourhood officers and beat officers to work from and make
:08:07. > :08:13.significant savings? The community support officers that were based at
:08:13. > :08:16.Kimberley are moving up the road to Ikea. So this is the new station
:08:16. > :08:19.for you?" This will be the new station, we'll have badges on the
:08:19. > :08:25.wall there obviously we'll have placards with our pictures and our
:08:25. > :08:27.contact details. And the people in Awesworth and Cossal, those
:08:27. > :08:32.communities that you serve, have they made any comment about the
:08:32. > :08:35.Kimberley police station shutting? I had a parish council meeting with
:08:35. > :08:39.them and we have a contact point in Awesworth where we have beat
:08:39. > :08:42.surgeries. We'll spend an hour in there where the community knows
:08:42. > :08:47.we're going to be there as well. We've got one up at Giltbrook, the
:08:47. > :08:50.parish hall up there. We go and sit in there and have little beat
:08:50. > :08:53.surgeries where people come and contact us as well. People don't
:08:53. > :08:55.want to get that we're going to be stuck on Giltbrook retail park
:08:55. > :09:00.because we're not. $WHITE They're sure that closing
:09:00. > :09:06.Kimberley won't affect their policing. But station closures is
:09:06. > :09:10.not the only way Nottinghamshire's Two years ago Nottingham was laid
:09:10. > :09:13.siege by the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism.
:09:13. > :09:18.Thousands of rival supporters were also in town to see Forest at home
:09:18. > :09:21.to Leicester City. And The Mercian Regiment were being given the
:09:21. > :09:29.freedom of the city. All this on one of the busiest Christmas
:09:29. > :09:37.shopping days of the year. Greg Drozdowski was the bronze commander.
:09:37. > :09:41.His job was to brief officers on how to police it. Two years on and
:09:41. > :09:44.it's a different story. He's been forced to retire under what's
:09:44. > :09:47.called Regulation A19. It's one of the tools Nottinghamshire's using
:09:47. > :09:51.to reduce the number of police officers it employs. But it's
:09:51. > :10:01.proving controversial. I'm only one of dozens of officers that have
:10:01. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:05.been forced to retire under A19. We were supposedly at the top of our
:10:05. > :10:10.game. Our appraisals were all good and we were performing well, no
:10:10. > :10:15.issues with any of us but despite that, we are still forced to retire
:10:15. > :10:19.under A19. After 30 years, you were forced out? But obviously you've
:10:19. > :10:22.got a lot of skills and experience that go with you. Isn't that passed
:10:22. > :10:25.on to anybody? No, and that's the sad thing really, There's a huge
:10:25. > :10:28.depth of knowledge there that's going and you don't get that
:10:28. > :10:31.overnight, so yes there are other officers that can be brought into
:10:31. > :10:34.that role but there was no overlap in terms of mentoring or training
:10:34. > :10:44.these individuals it was a case of you're going on that date and
:10:44. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:49.someone else will be slipping into $WHITE So what would be your
:10:49. > :10:52.greatest fear now? I think really that whether it was a firearms
:10:52. > :11:02.incident, public order or serious crime, that the force may not have
:11:02. > :11:07.some key individuals in place with Greg's one of hundreds of officers
:11:07. > :11:15.to go from Nottinghamshire. But the force is still committed to
:11:15. > :11:18.reducing crime by 24%. What's moral like in Nottinghamshire now?"
:11:18. > :11:25.pretty low, it's as low as I've ever seen it. In fact nationally
:11:25. > :11:30.it's at rock bottom. Nottinghamshire Police said they
:11:30. > :11:34.will cut crime by 24%. Do you think that is achievable? I would like to
:11:34. > :11:38.think so but I don't believe it will be, no, not when you are
:11:38. > :11:45.cutting numbers out of the force because where is all the work going
:11:45. > :11:50.to go? One in five cops come from where we were only a few years ago.
:11:50. > :12:00.And if we did not think we had enough for me had 2,500, how the
:12:00. > :12:04.
:12:04. > :12:07.hell are we going to cope if we have 1950? The Police Federation is
:12:07. > :12:10.challenging every one of the A19 orders being made against its
:12:10. > :12:13.officers. If they win, it will cost the force dearly. What about the
:12:13. > :12:16.skills that they take away with them and that Nottinghamshire loses,
:12:16. > :12:19.how are they replaced? It is a hit, we are losing some phenomenally
:12:19. > :12:22.talented people that you and I have both worked with that we know and
:12:22. > :12:25.respect that in a million lifetimes you'd never want to leave from
:12:25. > :12:29.policing. We couldn't balance the budget this year without using it.
:12:29. > :12:32.It was as simple and as stark as that. In addition to the �42.3
:12:32. > :12:35.million that we're having to cut there is another �12 million that
:12:35. > :12:38.we should receive in government grants that isn't. So we fall short
:12:38. > :12:41.in addition by �12 million of what we should receive in grant from the
:12:41. > :12:43.government as well. The level of cuts we are facing in
:12:43. > :12:50.Nottinghamshire is such that it threatens frontline services in a
:12:50. > :12:55.way that doesn't elsewhere. It is clear that Nottinghamshire is
:12:55. > :13:00.facing harder cuts than Derbyshire. In cutting and delivering a
:13:00. > :13:04.service... We have seen a lot of things that they do, closing police
:13:04. > :13:07.stations to save money. We've shown reduction in officer numbers in an
:13:07. > :13:10.appropriate way to save money. We've seen a lot of technology
:13:10. > :13:12.being used. And we've talked and heard about some of the
:13:12. > :13:15.collaboration projects. The question I would ask is are there
:13:15. > :13:25.more aspects of collaboration that they could become involved in. Have
:13:25. > :13:26.
:13:26. > :13:34.Chief Constable, we heard your former head of crime there talking
:13:34. > :13:39.favourably about the idea of collaboration. We know that there
:13:39. > :13:46.are units working together. Isn't there now a stronger case than ever
:13:46. > :13:50.before to merge all five forces in the East Midlands? There is a
:13:51. > :13:57.difference between collaboration and merger. Merging is different
:13:57. > :14:04.from collaboration because the needs of the people of Nottingham
:14:04. > :14:10.are different from those in other towns. Bringing together systems
:14:10. > :14:13.would have a consequence of a long- term timescale to get the money
:14:13. > :14:16.back inefficiencies and the Government are not keen.
:14:16. > :14:24.It was looked at in 2005 and dismissed but times have changed,
:14:24. > :14:29.don't drastic times call for drastic measures? I know you say it
:14:29. > :14:32.costs money but this is the situation we are a in.
:14:33. > :14:36.organisation has talked about it and there may be a debate about
:14:36. > :14:40.moves in the future where we have to merge. The recognition is that
:14:40. > :14:45.if you go for mergers, it would take a lot of money, it will take a
:14:45. > :14:47.lot of time to pay back. We are not sure the public wants it in that
:14:47. > :14:55.sense. If a merger means keeping officers
:14:55. > :14:58.on the frontline maybe that's a price worth paying. It is if it is
:14:58. > :15:01.paid for and the delay in getting it is worth the payback will stop
:15:01. > :15:07.is it not true to say that the biggest obstacle is the Chief
:15:07. > :15:11.Constables themselves? Far from it, people talk about that and turkeys
:15:11. > :15:16.and Christmas. I would only ever want to do the right thing in terms
:15:16. > :15:20.of policing the East Midlands. By have worked all my life here and in
:15:20. > :15:27.it is the right case, I would be absolutely in favour of it but I am
:15:27. > :15:32.of the view to please as many people as we can. We are only one
:15:32. > :15:35.year into this process of four years of cuts, isn't it the case
:15:35. > :15:39.that the easiest will have been made and they will get harder and
:15:39. > :15:43.that will have an impact on your ability to fight crime? It is
:15:43. > :15:48.absolutely true, it will get harder and harder. This room is an
:15:48. > :15:52.investment but it is saving us a lot of money. We are making
:15:52. > :15:59.efficiencies and this is saving money already. We know what our
:15:59. > :16:04.savings plan is, we made a lot of savings in year one, but the
:16:04. > :16:08.economy is having a difficult time and there is a risk that years
:16:08. > :16:14.three and four will be even higher. Can you even deliver with cutting
:16:14. > :16:17.budgets? We are seeing cuts in crime year on year. It is down
:16:17. > :16:21.about 6.5% now. It will get more difficult. I don't think the case
:16:21. > :16:26.is absolutely that the size of your workforce and the size of your
:16:26. > :16:32.police is the reason why crime is up and down. It is a factor among
:16:32. > :16:35.many. There are different types of crime, globalised in economies as
:16:35. > :16:39.well. People watching this will want to know what the impact of
:16:39. > :16:43.these cuts will be on them. When they hear about police force is
:16:43. > :16:47.shrinking, they are concerned. and we have been very public about
:16:47. > :16:57.that. We do not deny that. The over the course of this current savings
:16:57. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:02.plans, we have lost something like 400 posts. It is a big hit. 10% of
:17:02. > :17:12.our workforce has gone and you cannot pretend that taking out 10%
:17:12. > :17:23.
:17:23. > :17:31.of any business will not have an Out the Government is keen on
:17:31. > :17:35.keeping police numbers on the Falls and I am finding out how it works.
:17:35. > :17:38.It's the start of the shift for PCs Jase Davis and Leigh Glover and
:17:38. > :17:41.already someone's dialled 999. As they race across Leicester their in
:17:41. > :17:48.car computer warns them someone who's lived at the address has a
:17:48. > :17:56.history of violence. So it's no surprise when there's an arrest. As
:17:56. > :17:59.the suspect's loaded into the car he lashes out and then this happens.
:17:59. > :18:01.An emergency like this used to rely on good old fashioned radio
:18:01. > :18:11.messages passed backward and forwards between the control room
:18:11. > :18:14.
:18:14. > :18:17.and police in the field. Are you available for a shoplifter? But now
:18:17. > :18:27.radio's only part of the story - Leicestershire is leading the way,
:18:27. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:30.We will get cracking. The usual thing about yesterday... At Euston
:18:30. > :18:39.Street police station the afternoon shift is being briefed on their
:18:39. > :18:43.priorities for the day. Make sure you look out for the sporty types
:18:43. > :18:48.of vehicles in those areas. Particularly in areas where they
:18:48. > :18:51.have been hit for burglaries. Thank Fast response officer PC Jase Davis
:18:51. > :18:54.and PC Leigh Glover will spend the next seven hours patrolling
:18:54. > :18:57.Leicester city centre and thanks to something called a mobile data
:18:57. > :19:03.terminal they won't need return to the police station. All the
:19:03. > :19:06.information they've just heard is available in their car. And as long
:19:06. > :19:16.as they've got a signal all their paperwork can be completed out on
:19:16. > :19:17.
:19:17. > :19:21.the road too. The biggest thing for us this gives us a full desktop
:19:21. > :19:25.suite of information. We can access it all in the car, did our e-mails
:19:25. > :19:30.and all the thing we have to service on the desktop from the
:19:30. > :19:37.vehicle. That gives us an increased visibility and accessibility from
:19:37. > :19:46.two officers to members of the public. Police technology has come
:19:46. > :19:51.on a bit since the days of Dixon of Dock green. A mugging, can you
:19:51. > :19:54.deal? And practically elsewhere. call came from the ambulance
:19:54. > :19:57.service, over and out. Throughout police history the only way the
:19:57. > :20:01.control rooms knew where their patrols were was when they checked
:20:01. > :20:11.in by radio or phone. Today when control sends a message they know
:20:11. > :20:20.
:20:20. > :20:30.exactly where everyone is. An 11- Romeo 18, do you want us to divert?
:20:30. > :20:33.
:20:33. > :20:36.As Jase and Leigh head across town back in the control room their car
:20:36. > :20:42.is being tracked. It's a system called IR3 and it's revolutionised
:20:42. > :20:52.the way the force is deployed. Superintendent Jez Cottrill gave me
:20:52. > :20:58.a Google Earth-style demonstration. That is the statue of Liberty but I
:20:58. > :21:02.can put a call sign on to an assistant, and there is a
:21:02. > :21:06.Leicestershire Police van. It is aimed over Britain, it is going
:21:06. > :21:09.down on to East Park Road, Leicester, and I can see that
:21:09. > :21:13.vehicle is actually in the Rea station of the car park. Very
:21:13. > :21:18.impressive but how does it help the people in the control room?
:21:18. > :21:22.enables us to choose the most local resource to go to an incident. A
:21:22. > :21:27.member of public rings up and we need to get the results there quick.
:21:27. > :21:30.We do not have to go through a long debate of where our units are, we
:21:30. > :21:40.distance and the click a button and they are there, can deploy them
:21:40. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:46.efficient live. 40 vehicles. That is the number they have been able
:21:46. > :21:50.to cut their fleet by because of deficiencies.
:21:50. > :21:59.And 11-year-old has had his foot and needs a trip in an ambulance.
:21:59. > :22:04.It could have been much worse. Out on patrol again, Jason spots a
:22:04. > :22:11.suspicious car. We have had observations put out on our breeze
:22:11. > :22:18.that had been involved something. It is a black Audi. The in-car
:22:18. > :22:23.mobile data terminal has instant access to every vehicle database
:22:23. > :22:31.including VOSA. With no driver in sight Jase and Leigh decide to
:22:31. > :22:33.leave an alert on the system. the moment there is a White added...
:22:33. > :22:37.When the car next passes a CCTV camera automatic number plate
:22:37. > :22:45.recognition will kick in and a patrol car can stop the Audi to
:22:45. > :22:53.At Market Harborough Marion Lewis from Neighbourhood watch is running
:22:53. > :23:02.a stall of crime prevention gadgets and gizmos. It turns out the new
:23:02. > :23:06.police software is proving useful in rural Leicestershire too. Police
:23:06. > :23:10.Federation have the technology that the police are using. - Mike
:23:10. > :23:14.Neighbourhood Watch have the technology. How quickly can you get
:23:14. > :23:24.a message out there? Sake, there has been a burglary. Within about
:23:24. > :23:25.
:23:25. > :23:30.five minutes. We had a village post of office... We had then somebody
:23:30. > :23:33.e-mail as saying they had somebody asking suspicious questions which
:23:33. > :23:37.enabled us to track progress to a particular van travelling through
:23:37. > :23:44.the district and we ended up catching them in Northamptonshire
:23:44. > :23:47.across the border. The goods had been stolen but we tracked them
:23:47. > :23:50.across the district. Planning -- an extremely good way of showing how
:23:50. > :23:52.the system works. Marion's members are worried about
:23:52. > :23:55.anti -social behaviour, vandalism, thefts from cars it's not the sort
:23:55. > :24:05.of crime that grabs headlines and victims often complain they're not
:24:05. > :24:05.
:24:05. > :24:07.a police priority. Good morning, I am Inspector Tony Price... Today
:24:07. > :24:10.two of the Leicestershire neighbourhood watch team have
:24:10. > :24:17.dropped into police headquarters to hear how they're trying to tackle
:24:17. > :24:23.that sort of crime the icons on the map all show crime trouble spots.
:24:23. > :24:29.way marker is like a boundary on a map and a perimeter or an we can
:24:29. > :24:32.use a GPS sauce, in our case police vehicles up outside or insider that
:24:32. > :24:35.boundary. Police officers in the field are
:24:35. > :24:41.set targets to regularly visit the Way markers at key times rather
:24:41. > :24:45.than head back to the comfort of the police station. I can hover
:24:45. > :24:51.over the map and it will tell me in the last day, we have had 10
:24:51. > :24:55.officers in that area and they have spent 10 hours. Very impressed that
:24:55. > :25:01.we can see exactly where the police cars and constables and the
:25:01. > :25:06.officers are at any time of the day. They are out there doing what we
:25:06. > :25:11.expect them to be doing. My own opinion is that this computer we
:25:12. > :25:15.are using now, and the others, they are fabulous. They reduce the
:25:15. > :25:24.amount of paperwork put in front of a police officer. Their shift's
:25:24. > :25:32.almost over but Jase and Leigh have another assignment. Are you
:25:32. > :25:39.available for a shoplifter? I have got the screen up, what is the
:25:39. > :25:42.The teenager caught holding the goods is only 15. The computer
:25:42. > :25:52.reveals he was arrested yesterday too for the same offence. And his
:25:52. > :25:56.
:25:56. > :26:00.photo's on the system. This is the main custody suite. This is where
:26:00. > :26:06.the prisoners are first brought to. I have come to Euston Street police
:26:06. > :26:08.station to see how that got there. ID officer Andy Ramsay explains how
:26:08. > :26:16.everyone arrested is fingerprinted and photographed in the custody
:26:16. > :26:22.Keep your face still and that is it, that is your photograph actually
:26:22. > :26:30.taken. Let us have a look. Me in my criminal state, not my best
:26:30. > :26:37.photograph! If we wanted to, we could find you. What's changed
:26:37. > :26:42.though is what happens to my photo next. This is the business end of
:26:42. > :26:46.what the machine does. I will do a search for who has been arrested in
:26:46. > :26:50.Euston Street since yesterday. This is not immediately accessible to
:26:50. > :26:55.all prison officers out on the street. This is another one of the
:26:55. > :26:59.major things about this machinery, it is contemporary, up-to-date. 30
:26:59. > :27:04.years ago as a police officer, you could only dream of something like
:27:04. > :27:08.this. It is so good to have a face in front of you. No doubt, people
:27:08. > :27:15.are getting arrested on a daily basis in the region as a direct
:27:15. > :27:21.result of having this technology. Other regions are looking to follow
:27:21. > :27:27.the lead of Latasha now. �4.2 million has been saved so far as a
:27:27. > :27:32.result of this technology but it still has to cut �20 million over
:27:32. > :27:36.four years. Police constables like these two are part of a much
:27:36. > :27:40.smaller force so can tell -- can technology really bridge the gap?
:27:40. > :27:48.We are aware that numbers have dropped and there are few officer
:27:48. > :27:52.than normal. Technology can make your job easier and quicker but it
:27:52. > :27:58.will never replace the amount of police vehicles we have got, or
:27:58. > :28:02.police officers. What it has done is make the job easier with the
:28:02. > :28:06.numbers we have got available and it is still at enabling us to do a
:28:06. > :28:16.job and to give the public that reassurance that we will still turn
:28:16. > :28:18.
:28:18. > :28:21.up and work for them when they ring 999.
:28:21. > :28:23.I'm reliably informed that that photograph of me has now been
:28:23. > :28:25.permanently deleted from the police database. Our thanks to
:28:25. > :28:28.Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Police for shedding some
:28:28. > :28:31.light on how the cuts are affecting them. See you next Monday.
:28:31. > :28:37.Next week on the next Inside Out, grown men grooming children the