At last a reasoned well thought out response, not one shot from the hip after a quick read of a post. thank you PAN.
I have lots of Police and ASU service and have seen these cyclical things come and go, but now is the first time in 25+ years that I have seen staff made redundant and departments closing, we are in a scary new world and we don't like it, myself included.
As I have said previously though, like it or not we have to live with it.