DORSET Police is still waiting to see if the Government will come up with the promised funding for extra officers.

Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill said this week that he hopes the Government will still pay for an additional 20,000 front line posts across the country it promised  - but is worried that he has heard nothing more about the funding, or when it will be delivered.

The Commissioner says he is delighted that after years of not recruiting Dorset Police now has taken on an extra 50 officers this year in Dorset, with another two transferring from other forces.

He told the county’s police and crime panel this week that there had been no information at all from Government about the second year of the ‘Uplift’ funding programme.

Mr Underhill said there had been talk of another £60million for policing but this has yet to be confirmed with an announcement delayed by the pandemic.

He told the online panel meeting: “I am concerned. I’m worried that the country is bankrupt and whether the Government will pay for the second year of funding."