THE North Yorkshire Police Authority "budget explained" leaflet is a comprehensive document but is lacking in one key area.
It does not explain how fixed- income council tax payers can budget for 40 per cent and 70 per cent increases on rises in their income of around two per cent. Perhaps next year's leaflet will remedy this omission.
The pensions issue is the one that concerns me.
If police pensions are supported via the council tax - or any other pensions for that matter - it is time they were funded from another source because this system takes from less well-off pensioners to support better-off pensioners.
Les Cayton,
Montague Road,
Bishopthorpe, York.
Updated: 08:18 Saturday, August 09, 2003
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