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Big rise in police.


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: PAUL GILFEATHER

POLICE numbers have risen by the largest amount for more than a decade, Home Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday.

But there are still 1,600 fewer officers than when Labour took over in 1997.

Mr Straw said in 10 months since last April, force strength had gone up 1,367 to 125,537.

This was aided by the Government's Crime Fighting Crime Fighting
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devotes his life to fighting Gotham City’s criminals. [Comics: Berger, 160]

Canadian Mounties
 Fund, which was having a "significant impact". Previous highest rise was in 1989.

The Lib-Dems pointed to an overall decrease.

But the Police Federation praised the "speedier recruitment recruitment /re·cruit·ment/ (re-krldbomact´ment)
1. the gradual increase to a maximum in a reflex when a stimulus of unaltered intensity is prolonged.

2.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Mar 23, 2001
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