Police Ads Strike Sour Note With U.K. Home Office

Campaign against budget cuts angers officials

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The United Kingdom’s Home Office is not happy with the Police. Officials say a recent ad campaign by the Police Federation isn’t up to code. The police officers’ representative group launched a campaign fighting the government’s planned 20 percent budget cuts by showing what life might be like without enough bobbies on the streets.

The most recent in a series of print ads depicts a little girl covering her ears huddled in a corner with a menacing shadow of a man yelling in the foreground.

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