POLICE jobs in Hampshire will be cut as the force faces making savings of £20m in the next financial year with further cuts of £30m expected in the following three years.

Chief Constable Alex Marshall has said frontline policing will be unaffected in the year to come.

He said: "My priority is to retain the strength of frontline officers; those who provide visible local policing.

"This includes officers who respond dynamically to crime, and neighbourhood officers and PCSOs who will remain in your community long term to understand your issues and work to resolve them."

To help soften the blow, £4m of cash reserves will be used.

The yearly budget will stand at just over £314m.

The Authority unanimously agreed that there would be no increase in the Council Tax precept for policing in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in 2011/12.

On Friday Dorset's Police Authority will discuss their funding shortfall. Yesterday they warned up to 248 jobs could be axed in the next year.