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Frontline police

Wednesday 10 March 1993 00:02 GMT
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Northumbria police is putting more of its 3,600 officers into 'frontline policing', rather than desk jobs. It is replacing its six divisions and 22 sub-divisions with 15 command units, each with about 170 officers. The present total of 62 chief superintendents and superintendents will be cut by a third.

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