Residents have backed plans to increase the police's share of council tax bills by 1.99 per cent for the next four years.
Leicestershire's Labour police and crime commissioner Lord Willy Bach proposed the rise - the maximum allowed by the Government - to try to temper the need for upcoming spending cuts required by the force.
Lord Bach's office has published the results of a consultation in which people were asked whether they would be prepared to pay the extra amount - a sum that equates to...
