PAvNews mentions the Bilbao conference and the update of NPAS - given by a Spanish contractor - possibly a Spanish waiter named Manuel. What a definative source that is!
Perhaps it was the same source that led to the editorial comment in the May edition of PAvNews along the lines of the April meeting of NPAS had to be paid for by forces. WRONG. I believe the meeting in April was a slight change to the platform User Working Groups that have been held every 6 months for some years. (Previously, they were held in hotels with conference facilities - but this was held on a police training site hence cheaper). Delegates had to pay for there own rooms, but overall 000's of £'s were saved. The word is that there was an NPAS update at the end - strange if there wasn't
A decent journal might be expected to publish an apology in next months edition. We'll see. It might help if PAvNews reported fact, not fiction and cut the editorial burble.
As for Bilbao, PAVNews has an obvious interest in arranging PAvCon - presumeably this is why he is trying to bait the NPAS team to attending.