A "national crisis of morale" exists among police officers, the head of an independent commission on policing in England and Wales says.
Lord Stevens, a former Met Police chief asked by Labour to head the commission, was responding to a poll of 14,000 officers which suggested 95% did not feel supported by the coalition.
He told the Sunday Telegraph it was threatening to undermine police work.
The Home Office has asked police to make 20% budget cuts by 2015.
'Lives on the line'Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper set up the Independent Commission on Policing last year to look at the future of policing in England and Wales.
"We have a national crisis of morale which threatens to undermine the work our officers are doing," Lord Stevens, Met Police commissioner from 2000 until 2005, told the Sunday Telegraph.
"If we're asking men and women to put their lives on the line to protect us, then I think they should know they've got the full support of the government.
"These results show that they do not perceive this to be the case."
Lord Stevens said he had never seen such figures in more than 40 years of policing.
"I think we're plummeting to the bottom."
Retirement worriesThe government announced in October 2010 that central funding provided to the police service would reduce by 20% between March 2011 and March 2015. Analysis has shown that this would result in 5,800 fewer front-line officers across the 43 forces.
Referring to the cuts, Lord Stevens said: "We're hearing from officers that change is happening too fast and with a lack of consultation.
"They feel change is being forced upon them, without them being involved in the process."
The research found that a third of officers were "very worried" about being forced to retire because of cuts.
Lord Stevens added: "I don't think people are pleased with pay freezes and changes to their pensions, but I also think it's about how they've been given the credit for the job they've done."
The controversial Winsor report, published last year, into police pay called for the abolition of a series of allowances and special payments and for a pay system that recognised hard work and merit instead of long service.
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