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Who stipulates that level? Is that at the chief constable’s discretion, or is it the police and crime commissioner, the metro mayor, the Policing Minister or the Home Secretary? Define “effective”. Furthermore, a ringfenced allocation of 20% for neighbourhood policing from future police grant reports would hamper the flexibility of operational budgets for chief constables when we should be allowing them the freedom of operation to be the arbiters of how their resources may be employed most effectively within their constabulary areas.