{"id":389574,"date":"2026-01-25T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:53:08","slug":"police-reforms-not-about-saving-money-home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-tells-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389574\/","title":{"rendered":"Police reforms not about saving money, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home secretary speaks ahead of major policing reformspublished at 08:45 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:45 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bd637223-1ae4-4a5d-83fd-544eb82dc933.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good morning, it&#8217;s that time of the week again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to be questioned by Laura Kuenssberg ahead of a huge shake-up of policing in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government intends to radically cut police forces down from 43 to make way for 12 &#8220;mega&#8221; forces to save money and boost crime-fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mahmood has also announced the creation of a new National Police Service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2yr95md71o\" class=\"ssrcss-ydgjc1-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dubbed a &#8220;British FBI&#8221;<\/a>, to take over counter-terror, fraud, and criminal gang investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;s been a testing week for UK-US relations, with Downing Street criticising Donald Trump over a remark about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3edwx37pd9o\" class=\"ssrcss-ydgjc1-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nato troops in Afghanistan. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to seek an apology from Trump, is also among guests on the programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We won&#8217;t be providing regular text updates &#8211; but you can follow along by pressing Watch live at the top of the page from 09:00 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home secretary speaks ahead of major policing reformspublished at 08:45 GMT 08:45 GMT Image source, PA Media Good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389574","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\/389574","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=389574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}