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<p>The Home Office, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
committed to fund the National Wildlife Crime Unit until 2019/20. This money is in
addition to central government funding to police forces. Decisions on funding the
National Wildlife Crime Unit beyond 2020 will be taken at the next Spending Review.</p><p>The
Government does not prescribe the nature or level of resources deployed by individual
police forces to tackle crimes against animals and wildlife or any other form of crime.
It is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders
and elected local representa-tives, to ensure that forces’ priorities locally reflect
those of their communities, and it is important that forces have the flexibility to
deploy their resources without Government interference.</p>
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