Copping out
Sir: Both the Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Andrew Billings and your recent correspondent John Pritchard are partly right (Letters, 16 and 23 March). Policing has gone wrong for two reasons.
First, the massive cuts in staff instigated by Theresa May as home secretary resulted in a large number of the most experienced officers leaving.
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