At times there are only two or three response officers serving the entire city, he claims
A worried cop has spoken out about the 'dangerously low' number of police officers struggling to keep Milton Keynes safe.
The whistleblower police officer, who cannot be identified for their own protection, said at times there are only two or three response officers available to cover the entire city.
Sometimes the situation is so bad that officers have be be "borrowed" from neighbouring areas in the Thames Valley force, they said.
In a letter to the Citizen, they wrote: "I am a serving police officer in Milton Keynes. I am writing to you to disclose the dangerously low number of police officers in Milton Keynes.
"This is not to win sympathy, it is to be honest and transparent to the people we serve and to make you aware of the situation to put pressure on senior officers to make changes as we are not being listened to."
He added: "The "safe minimum" of response officers in Milton Keynes is 18. Response officers are the officers you see in the typical "panda" cars. In this summary I am not including specialised roles such as firearms officers, traffic or detectives.
"All response teams in Milton Keynes often operate below this "safe" minimum number and we have to borrow officers from neighbouring areas such as Bicester or Aylesbury to increase our numbers, if those areas are above their respective minimum numbers themselves.”
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