http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/22/police-crime-commissioners-cost
14 of the forces overspent the Police Authority previous year budget. The remainder either matched or reduced it. However, the 14 that overspent did so to such an extent that all of the forces combined have overspent to the tune of 2.81%, equating to £1.3million.
The Home Affairs Committee produced a report that shows who spent what. To see the full report click the link below.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmhaff/69/69.pdf
What they omitted to publish was the total expenditure and excess spend of the PCC's. We have taken the data and created a table to show the totals. Click the link below to see this.
http://bit.ly/11d0orF
To quote the 2010 Conservative Manifesto on Crime, Police & Justice:
- We will
introduce measures to make the police more accountable through oversight
by a directly elected individual, who will be subject to strict checks and
balances by locally elected representatives.
The document makes interesting reading and Police Officers will find many of the issues they justifiably complain about having their roots in this document, in proposals made by Nick Herbert & Blair Gibbs (his former business partner at Policy Xchange).
The estimated first year costs for PCC's was in the region of £40million, a wishful saving of some £6million versus the prior year Police Authority spend. However, the PCC's have cost £48million. We will leave it for the reader to decide and for performance to reflect (if we can expect to see statistical probity!) if the money is well spent.
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