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He said the Met was "chronically underfunded" and cuts to policing in London were the real-term equivalent to more than £1.1bn.

Some remain wary of anything that might be seen as militarism even now, and the armed forces have been chronically underfunded.

It turns the human brain into a reptilian one and activates the sympathetic nervous system, putting us into fight-or-flight mode — the same one we can get stuck in when we’re chronically lonely.

The question this time is whether these are growing pains of a rapidly expanding and professionalising outfit or something more chronically limiting.

Retired officers also appeared in support of the defendants, arguing their colleagues were victims of a chronically understaffed and mismanaged agency that put them in an impossible job.