The Case Against ACPO - A Critical Look At The Association Of Chief Police Officers INTRODUCTION
The 349 men and women who comprise ACPO have long since turned away from their traditional role of upholding the law and fighting serious crime, in favour of increasingly blatant attempts to curry political favour with the previous Labour administration, by aligning themselves firmly with that parties political agenda.
Even though it gets a state subsidy, ACPO is run as a private business with an annual income of around £18 million. Its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has £200,000 a year with a police pension.
The news that the virulently anti-British and privately-run Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has spent millions of taxpayers’ cash acquiring apartments for their senior staffers’ personal use in London has reiterated the necessity for the complete disbandment of the organisation.
The money, amounting to at least £1.6 million every year, is taken out of the £33 million taxpayer grant to ACPO which is meant to be used on “counter-terrorism work.” Instead, at least part of that cash has been used to buy apartments for its high-on-the-hog senior personnel to live a life of luxury when they are in London.
To add insult to injury, reports allege that the apartments stand empty most of the time because there is apparently no need for them.
ACPO makes its money from, amongst other things, selling information from the Police National Computer for up to £70 — even though it pays just 60 pence to access those details.
It also markets “police approval” logos to firms selling anti-theft devices and operates a separate private firm offering training to speed camera operators, which is run by a senior officer who was banned from driving. ACPO also advises the Government and police forces on a “number of issues.”
It employs a number of former high-ranking police officers on lucrative short-term contracts. Its staff bill is £1.4 million a year — which averages out at £66,000 for each of its 21 employees.
ACPO was set up in 1997, replacing an informal network of police chiefs who decided national policies. In the past two years its influence and public role has expanded to playing a major role in formulating national police policy, advising Ministers and oversaw the development of the National Police Improvement Agency, which ran the controversial DNA database and Police National Computer. Its annual income from project work for the police and Home Office has risen to £15 million, from just £1.3 million in 2005.
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