{"id":331243,"date":"2025-12-23T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331243\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:28:07","slug":"households-face-police-cost-rise-to-plug-10m-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331243\/","title":{"rendered":"Households face police cost rise to plug \u00a310m hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite having the fourth largest force, West Yorkshire had the fourth lowest precept level out of 42 forces in England and Wales this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Options to increase the precept bill paid by households could see an increase of about \u00a310 a year for those in Band A, up to \u00a330 annually for those in Band H.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently households in the lowest band, A, pay about \u00a3175 while those in Band H are charged \u00a3526 annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Lowe said said:&#8221;It is so important that everyone across the county gives their views on funding for our vital police services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know neighbourhood policing and police visibility really matter to residents, and we are continually working to build public trust and confidence in the service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvoice.westyorks-ca.gov.uk\/police-precept-26-27\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The consultation runs until midnight, external<\/a> on 20th January 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having the fourth largest force, West Yorkshire had the fourth lowest precept level out of 42 forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-331243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}