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.
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.