Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Police mergers that never were cost taxpayer £3.9m

In an answer to Parliament yesterday, Tony McNulty, Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety, admitted that a total of £3,997,200 had been wasted on the police force mergers that never happened.

The table presented to Parliament shows that the police forces to be merged had spent around £6.5m on preparatory work but the Government placed a cap of 100,000 on there claims when the policy was scrapped.

3 comments:

Ellee said...
31 Oct 2006 14:13:00  

This is in the local Norwich paper today too, which is Charles Clarke's constituency. I don't think he repents or sees the error of his ways at all. Talk about thick skinned, and that's being kind.

Guthrum said...
31 Oct 2006 15:05:00  

Its just like a mechanic fiddling with your car, throwing all the bits back in, and sending you the bill. Utter waste of time and cash

Jeremycj said...
1 Nov 2006 07:29:00  

Police mergers. EUssr regionalization through the back door.


 

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