£100 Million for top Bobbies

[jake-the-peg]

Whilst in the same breath accusing the Labour Party of wasting money

Cameron is going to spend £80-100 million on elected police commissioners

Analysis shows he won't make this back with savings

http://fullfact.org/f...me_commissioners-2959

How many beat officers would this pay for?

[Ankou]

i the article it says...

“Independent analysis suggests that the cost of the proposed reforms will be a minimum of £453m (2011/12 - 2015/16); £101million more than the entire cost of running police authorities during the same period, and the equivalent cost of over 600 police officers."

so doing some sums adding a bit here and a bit there, factoring in shift patterns, sick days, annual leave, bank holiday, christmas, riot duties and the monthly edl march police monitoring team.

i'd say .... 600 ?

[anotheoldgit]

Labour propaganda, nothing more nothing less.



/// The net costs of introducing the PCCs is therefore estimated here at £55 million (£50m for elections and £5m for transitional costs) and not the £100 million or greater figure that Ed Milliband claims. However David Cameron also announced that the Police and Crime Commisioner elections would be held separately from local elections at an additional cost of £25 million. Including this we can estimate the net costs at £80 million.///

Apart from that nothing has been set-up yet, it still has to go through the Lords etc.

[Ankou]

really ?

http://www.thisisbath...082-detail/story.html

[jake-the-peg]

Propaganda AOG?

Unlike your usual source of unbiased, not for profit, fact checking site with no political aliegence

http://fullfact.org/about

If that's your best response you're really scraping the barrel