£1bn police mergers scrapped

£1bn police mergers scrapped (Times Online 10/7/06)

Centrally driven police mergers, intended to help fight organised crime, terrorism and help on national investigations, were scrapped in the face of resistance from chief constables regarding costs (eg. admin and IT systems) and funding methods (how to set the CT precept.)

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