And replace them with which useless, out of touch political party instead?
The ones who created a fair deal of the mess in the first place through their spending policies?
It is a result of far too many Governments spending money they didn't raise by taxes or saved from cutting spending...
No, i wouldn't want Police officers doing the admin work, but that's not the point i was making, there are plenty of support staff who are not needed because they add nothing to the front line operations or support Police officers in their duties.
One force has less than 12 IT staff looking...
Already happening in many forces and has nothing to do with PCCs but forces slashing budgets and saving money by getting rid of people who are basically employed for the sake of it rather than doing anything to actually support the day to day Policing of their respective forces.