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I sometimes wonder if I had the wrong job.
After all the fuss about MPs expenses, there is now one brewing about the 1,183 Metropolitan police officers who misused their corporate credit cards and who have now been given amnesty. It seems that they will not be punished but will be given ‘training and guidance’.
‘Training and guidance’? In what one might ask.
Ignoring the basic question as to why
police officer would need a corporate credit card in the first place, one has also to ask why anyone who commits a fraud should get away with it. This is especially the case with police officers who are the very ones supposed to prosecute fraud.
Jenny Jones, who is a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, has said that she finds it, ‘unacceptable that the police have just let these officers go with guidance’. She is absolutely right and it is a scandal that both the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have agreed to such a situation.
In my past lives, the accountants responsible for checking staff expenses have done so with a strict and tiresome attention to detail. This is as it should be. But it is odd that it didn’t seem to be the case with MPs and now 1,183 police officers.
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I sometimes wonder if I had the wrong job.
After all the fuss about MPs expenses, there is now one brewing about the 1,183 Metropolitan police officers who misused their corporate credit cards and who have now been given amnesty. It seems that they will not be punished but will be given ‘training and guidance’.
‘Training and guidance’? In what one might ask.
Ignoring the basic question as to why
police officer would need a corporate credit card in the first place, one has also to ask why anyone who commits a fraud should get away with it. This is especially the case with police officers who are the very ones supposed to prosecute fraud.
Jenny Jones, who is a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, has said that she finds it, ‘unacceptable that the police have just let these officers go with guidance’. She is absolutely right and it is a scandal that both the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have agreed to such a situation.
In my past lives, the accountants responsible for checking staff expenses have done so with a strict and tiresome attention to detail. This is as it should be. But it is odd that it didn’t seem to be the case with MPs and now 1,183 police officers.
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