Prague police facing 10-percent shortfall in officer numbers

The Prague police will be 770 members short by the end of this year, the director of the city’s force Petr Zelasko said on Tuesday. That figure represents a short-fall of around ten percent. Mr Zelasko said police management would endeavour to ensure that citizens would not be affected by the fact so many places are unfilled, but he admitted it would be apparent. At the national level 5,000 police jobs will be empty. Many officers left the force following the introduction of a new law on police service.