The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is not a staff association (the separately constituted Chief Police Officers' Association fulfils that function). ACPO's work is on behalf of the Service, rather than its own members.
The Association has the status of a private company limited by guarantee. As such, it conforms to the requirements of company law and its affairs are governed by a Board of Directors.
It is funded by a combination of a Home Office grant, contributions from each of the 44 Police Authorities, membership subscriptions and by the proceeds of its annual exhibition.
ACPO's members are police officers who hold the rank of Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable or Assistant Chief Constable, or their equivalents, in the forty four forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, national police agencies and certain other forces in the UK, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, and certain senior non-police staff. There are presently 280 members of ACPO.
Any organisation that gets government money must either be directly accountable to the community from which it gets its money or accountable to parliament. This shower of shit is neither, and I'm willing to bet a fiver that it is precisely this very New Labour organisation that has aligned the police so closely to political objectives and political correctness rather than FUCKING PROTECTING THE PUBLIC AND NICKING VILLAINS WHICH IS YOUR FUCKING JOB YOU CUNTS!!!
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Obo, did you know that this gang have taken it upon themselves to "Type Approve" certain classes of speed detection equipment after they claimed that the equipment didn't need to be approved by the Secretary of State?
It would appear that ACPO seem to think they can step in and do the Secretary of State's job and make lawful the equipment that their own motorway patrol officers use, in defiance of S20 (1)(a), S20 (9) and S20 (10) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
The upshot is that no speed check carried out by any motorway patrol vehicle before 16th June 2008 (when the Secretary of State finally remembered to do his job) is admissible as evidence...
Listen for the sound of tens of millions on pounds being reclaimed by drivers when this information becomes widely known.
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I have been writing about the ACPO and its political functions for some time.
Read all about them here.
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog?cmd=search&keywords=acpo
2 pages of articles.
It makes for some seriously worrying reading.
Thanks, Ian. Interesting reading...
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