Five forces will struggle to cope with future budget cuts, the police watchdog in England and Wales has warned.
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) named the forces as West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Bedfordshire.
HMIC also said other forces risked stretching crime prevention units after scaling back neighbourhood policing.
The HMIC report largely praised police forces for absorbing significant budget cuts that had already been made.
These are expected to total a 20% cut in budgets by 2015 as the government reduces spending.
HM Inspector of Constabulary, Zoe Billingham, said there had been a "good" response overall to the financial situation but there was "considerable variation in the approaches taken by forces".
Balance booksShe said: "In some cases this leaves us with concerns about how some forces will manage in the face of further cuts.
"We also have some concerns that neighbourhood policing risks being eroded as forces change how they deliver local policing."
The report said that West Yorkshire Police had left "large elements of its operation untouched" and South Yorkshire Police had not "achieved savings seen elsewhere".
While Northamptonshire Police's approaches to the spending review had been "innovative", it had "struggled to maintain its performance levels".
Lincolnshire Police and Bedfordshire Police had also "responded well" but as small forces they might have "limited opportunities to reduce costs further", the report said.
HMIC said most forces planned to balance their books by the end of the spending review period.
They were increasing the proportion of their workforce on the front line, while working to make 31,600 staff reductions by March 2015.
Broadening the remit of neighbourhood policing would have a "potentially detrimental effect" on crime prevention work and "impair" the level of service the public received, the report added.
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