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Police service faces losing 28,000 jobs over the next four years. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA
Police service faces losing 28,000 jobs over the next four years. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA

How have the cuts affected criminal justice?

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Total cut: £3bn

One of the bigger losers, with a 20% cut in the Whitehall grant to the police and a 23% cut in the justice ministry's budget for probation, prisons and the courts.

Redundancies: 37,000

Chief constables say the police service faces losing 28,000 jobs over the next four years. Justice ministry estimates put possible prison and probation job losses at over 9,000. Youth offending teams, locally funded, have been particularly hit.

Services

Neighbourhood beat officer funding has been ringfenced for two years; 142 courts are to close; probation reports delays for places on courses to tackle domestic violence and sex offenders; three small jails are to close.

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