From: "landsnail", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve,
Here is TVP's prompt response to my enquiry about ACPO finance
Tim : )
-----Original Message-----
From: tvp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Thank you for your recent enquiry. In 2000/01 the Police Authority paid
>�20,128 towards the running of the ACPO secretariat in London. This forms
>part of 'other running costs' in the council tax leaflet.
>
>I am advised that the ACPO secretariat:
>
>1) supports the work of the major ACPO committees
>2) is a central point to respond rapidly and professionally to requests
>from both ACPO members and outside bodies
>3) represents the police service on various government working parties,
>particularly at the Home Office
>4) provides a focal point for contact with the Home Office and the
>Association of Police Authorities.
>
>I trust this information is helpful.
>
>Regards
>
>Ian Thompson
>Assistant Treasurer
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Okay:
1) and how is that relevant to TVP specifically, do they know what these
committees do?
2) once again, is this a help to TVP to pay an organisation to respond
to it's own members (very few of whom work for TVP) and other people
TVP have no connection with?
3) so what precisely is the operational policing policy unit's job
at the HO then?
4) Surely the "focal point" for contact is the HO or the Association
of Police Authorities themselves?
Are ACPO seriously saying that when TVP needs to contact the HO they
should relay it through ACPO?
This is a taxpayer funded police quango, and it is a waste of money
by any reasonable measure, as far as I can see.
Steve.
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