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CON-DEM badger culling came under renewed attack yesterday after police said the bill had come to more than £2.4 million — or £1,300 a badger.
Gloucestershire police and crime commissioner Martin Surl said on Twitter that policing costs for the full length of the Gloucestershire cull were £1.7m.
And the cost in Somerset was £738,985, which would be reclaimed from the government, Avon and Somerset chief constable Nick Gargan tweeted.
Both culls had to be extended after not enough badgers were slaughtered in the six-week time frame.
The Association of Chief Police Officers originally estimated that policing costs would be around £500,000 a year for each four-year pilot.
