Hull North MP Diana Johnson will tonight petition the House of Commons against the cuts to police numbers in and around Hull.
This call comes on the eve of a House of Commons debates on policing budgets for the next year and after recent figures showing that Humberside police lost 157 police officers between March 2010 and September 2011.
Nationally, police numbers have fallen to the lowest for a decade at a time when personal crime, which includes theft and violence, has gone up by a startling 11 per cent - the biggest increase in a decade.