For no other reason than devils advocate..
To illustrate the numbers involved with police budgets..
and picking notts police for no other reason than it was the first i found the stats for
Notts police
Total budget for 2009-2010 207million pounds
wages 175 million pounds
premises 7 million pounds
equipment and furniture 1.3 million pounds
stationary 8 hundred thousand pounds
"miscellanious expenses" 5 million pounds..
anyone hazard a guess what their share of the north mids ASU is..??
I genuinely dont know,, wonder how it compares with above..!
source of the above
Nottinghamshire Police Authority