Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has paid to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in each year since 2000; for what purpose; what restrictions apply to the use of the money; what discussions she has had since January 2008 with the President of ACPO; and if she will make a statement.
Original answer
The Home Office has provided funding for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) since 1997.In addition to an annual grant in aid payment, the Home Office has made regular payments to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to fund a number of specific projects or in support of initiatives that are best delivered by those with professional police experience. All the grants are prescribed only for the project or use specified. From the information currently held by the Department, the payments made to ACPO since 2006-07 have been listed as an annex to this response.The Home Secretary and I meet Sir Ken Jones, the current President of ACPO, regularly to discuss a range of issues, including the projects in which ACPO are involved. This is in addition to frequent telephone conversations and joint attendance at conferences and events. Formal notes of these meetings are not available to place in the House Library.
| Home Office payments to ACPO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial year | ||||
| Project | 2006-07 (£) | 2007-08 (£) | 2008-09 (£) | Detail¹ |
| Grant Aid | 836,232 | 836,232 | 836,232 | To meet the costs of the ACPO president and part of the ACPO office costs |
| ACIST | 2,988,115 | — | — | To fund the ACPO Change and Implementation Support Team |
| Criminal Records project | 110,000 | 110,000 | 110,000 | UK Central Authority for exchange of criminal records |
| Operation Sycamore | 700,000 | — | — | Investigation into prostitution project |
| Community Tensions project | 60,000 | 60,000 | 82,172 | To fund the ACPO National Community Tensions Team |
| Domestic Extremism project | 2,000,000, | 2,000,000, | 2,000,000, | To fund the ACPO Domestic Extremism Team |
| Disaster Victims Identification | 253,128 | 314,296 | 216,060 | To fund the ACPO UK DIVI Management Team |
| Stockwell project | — | 230,000 | — | Learning lessons of the Stockwell incident |
| Drugs Conference | — | — | 10,000 | Contribution to ACPO conference |
| Cannabis cultivation | — | — | 40,000 | Funding part of the costs of a co-ordinator |
| Wildlife crime | 15,367 | 15,367 | 150,000 | Funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit |
| Vehicle Intelligence | — | — | 100,000 | Funding for ACPO Vehicle Intelligence Service |
| Car Parking | 200,000 | 185,000 | 130,000 | Funding for ACPO Safer Car parking Scheme |
| Co-ordination of Counter-Terrorism policing | — | 5,300,664 | 4,000,000 | Funds the national co-ordination functions: the National Coordinator of Special Branch, media liaison work, CT training needs analysis and the police contribution to the Border Management programme. |
| Prevent | — | 355,586 | 1,159,500 | Prevent Channel project |
| Prevent | — | — | 4,705,810 | Prevent policing |
| Protective Services | — | 60,600 | 189,400 | Co-ordination costs |
| Level 2 | — | 2,000,000 | — | Level 2 project |
| Operation Overt | — | 268,581 | — | PNICC work on the air terrorist action |
| RIUs | 8,000,000 | 8,000,000 | — | Setting up regional intelligence units |
| Policing the Olympics | — | — | 220,000 | Co-ordinating work |
| Prisoner Intelligence Network | 948,665 | 3,841,899 | 4,598,961 | Support funding for programme |
| AVCIS (ACPO vehicle crime intelligence service) | — | 420,000 | — | Organised vehicle crime investigation |
| AVCIS—TruckPol | — | 50,000 | — | Freight crime intelligence service |
| ACPO Drugs CBA | 10,000 | 10,000 | — | Contribution to ACPO organised drugs conference |
| Operation Cube (ACRO) | 450,000 | 0 | 0 | DNA analysis |
| Operation Element (National Community Tension Team) | — | 200,000 | 170,000 | NCTT—Operation Element (2007-08 funding) |
| Knife Crime | 0 | 0 | 81,250 | Knife Crime £100,000 funding approximately agreed for 8 months (mid-September 2008 to mid-May 2009) |
| Domestic violence posters | 0 | 0 | 4,690 | Domestic violence awareness campaign. Grant agreement signed—funding awaited |
| Total | 14,571,507 | 22,258,225 | 16,804,075 | — |
| ¹ Funding allocated for these purposes only. |