{"id":25027,"date":"2013-02-01T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=25027"},"modified":"2013-02-01T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:54:11","slug":"taxpayers-punished-over-jimmy-savile-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/taxpayers-punished-over-jimmy-savile-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers Punished Over Jimmy Savile Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas James<br \/>\n<strong>rinf.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rise in council tax in \u00a0Norfolk\u00a0has been blamed at least in part, on the police probe into sexual abuse allegations made against Jimmy Savile.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers in a\u00a0Band D household\u00a0will be forced to pay an extra\u00a0\u00a3200 a year towards policing as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Bett, \u00a0who was elected as\u00a0Norfolk\u2019s first police and crime commissioner\u00a0in November,\u00a0\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cI plan to give the chief constable discretion to retain up to 10 more essential frontline personnel to meet the challenges in the vulnerable people\u2019s directorate where we face unprecedented pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claims the reason that extra funding \u00a0is needed is due to the repercussions from the Jimmy Savile allegations, which put pressure on the force\u2019s vulnerable people\u2019s unit, as more people reported abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Not all are in\u00a0favor\u00a0of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Brian Long, representing West Norfolk Council, proposed a veto on the increase.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt sits very hard with me that we would continue to take more and more from the public purse. I propose we veto it on the basis that the increase is too high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vote to veto was lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rise in council tax in  Norfolk has been blamed at least in part, on the police probe into sexual abuse allegations made against Jimmy Savile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-25027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}