Archive for metropolitan police authority

The Met Police have an unusual problem

10 December 2010 , ,
I suspect there are many parts of the public sector which wished they had this problem: Underspending continues to be an issue in the management of the capital programme, although unused funds can often be carried forward through reserves to support projects at a future date. Part of the issue is large projects slipping, with [...]

Is there a secret joker in the Met Police?

26 October 2010 ,
Working through the bureaucratic-speak and acronyms in the police’s report to the Metropolitan Police Authority about the draft London Transport Community Safety Strategy I discovered that the police intend to, “Contribute to the step change in the walking experience”. I hope there was at least a smile on the face of the person who typed [...]

Government scraps target – Met Police sets up new committee

12 October 2010 , , , ,
You might have thought that scrapping central government targets would result in local bodies being able to cut at least some of their own monitoring and reporting setups. But in an Alice in Wonderland style twist, Home Secretary Theresa May’s decision to scrap the “confidence target” for the police has been followed by the Met [...]

Met set to lose £5m from collapse of Icelandic bank

29 June 2010 , ,
London’s Metropolitan Policy Authority had £30m deposited with Landsbanki, the Icelandic bank which collapsed in late 2008. Combing through some of the latest financial information from the MPA, it’s clear that the MPA is now expecting (at best) to get 83% of that back, leaving the police with a £5.1m loss. Ouch. Though not so [...]

The police’s serious IT failures over stop and search

11 June 2010 , ,
The use of stop and search by the police, particularly in London, has often come under criticism. Most often it’s been about ridiculous cases where someone has been stopped or, more seriously, the deeply held suspicion amongst many communities that their members are irrationally singled out by the police for far more searches than their [...]

Innocent people deserve better treatment from Met over DNA database

25 February 2010 , , , ,
A party news release brings the message: Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson and member of the MPA, has today called for the Met to address its poor record of meeting requests by innocent people for the deletion of their DNA records held on a national database. At present only 24% of the requests [...]