Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner may put forward a rise in council tax, to keep officer numbers at their current level.
Police numbers had been forecast to drop this year to their lowest level since the 1980s, to meet the Government target for spending cuts.
But Tony Hogg wants to halt the decline and maintain the current strength - at three thousand one hundred.
He's considering a two per cent rise in the policing charge funded from council tax - which he says would add around three pounds a year to the average bill.
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