Monday 16 February 2009

Police chiefs body faces calls for review after cash revelations

I always, perhaps naivly, believed that APCO was simply an organisation set up to facilitate co-operation between police forces and common standards and best practice. Imagine my surprise to read that it is in fact a commercial company earning millions of pounds from services such as selling data from the police national computer to training speed camera operators to marketing logos to security equipment manufacturers.

All this whilst exerting heavy influence on the government and legal system. Doesn't this smack vaguely of conflict of interest to you?


READ MORE at:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/16/police-acpo-cash-claims

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