City terror cops cooking books - budget cut by £4m

[TonyGosling]

Police terror budget cut by millions after Ring of Steel blunder
By Jason Lewis - Daily Mail - 27th February 2010
Police forces across the country have had millions of pounds of counter-terrorism funding cut after a secret audit revealed they were spending the cash on other things.
In one instance, the City of London Police was receiving £3.7million for a so-called ‘ring of steel’ that no longer exists. And Kent Police has also lost a huge sum allocated for anti-terror work that it was using to pay for community support officers.
The disclosures come after The Mail on Sunday revealed how millions of pounds of anti-terrorism cash had been used to pay for luxury London apartments for senior officers. Forces were supposed to be using the funds for equipment and specialist staff to combat the threat of terrorism....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254353/Police-terror-budget-c ut-millions-Ring-Steel-blunder.html

Interesting though that unaccountable private company ACPO has become so powerful that it now actually distrubutes Home Office terrorism cash itself...