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POLICE officers injured in the line of duty are to have their pensions slashed.
Hundreds of officers who had to leave the force after being attacked on duty have been told they will see their injury pension cut
The changes to the pensions are being introduced by Northumbria Police on the back of Home Office guidelines.
But many forces including London’s Metropolitan Police, have decided they will not apply the new rules retrospectively to retired officers already claiming their injury pension.
Cost-cutting measures mean as many as 500 former Northumbria Police officers will have their pensions reduced . . . some by more than half.
Former PC Gerald Lang, from Whitley Bay, claims he will have to sell his house after seeing his monthly pension fall from £1,600 to £890.
Mr Lang, who served for 20 years, had to retire in 1991 after a drunken driver crashed into his car, leaving him with a broken chest bone and back injuries.
The 67-year-old said: “I think this is diabolical.
“My wife and I will have to put our house up for sale because we won’t have enough money to run it.
“What sort of a message does it send out today’s officers who might be injured tackling criminals?”
David Brown, another ex-Northumbria officer, says his pension has fallen from £1300-a-month to £460. :slrnt:
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