The Government have announced their intention to cap Surrey Police's 9.7% council tax increase in 2008. Should Surrey Police be capped, the force may have to conduct a £600,000 re-billing exercise to change the coming financial year’s council tax bills. Alternatively, reductions could be made for 2009/10. The costs of any re-billing would be met by the Police, although it would be Tandridge which would have to carry it out. Surrey Police's increase compares to Tandridge's below inflation increase of 3.9% and Surrey County Council's increase of 4.8%.
To see Surrey Police's response to the Government's threat click here.
I think it is disgraceful that Surrey Police's central government funding is so paltry that they have had to resort to this.
