Originally Posted by
Wagging Finger
Spin spin and more spin.
SYP have gained nothing by joining NPAS except an extra £6000per year to pay, over and above their existing budget, for the privilege of losing half their operating hours and half their staff...
It was their choice. They could have saved the extra money which I think was a little more than 6k.
The saving "on paper" was £600,000 per year, minus staff costs and the capital grant from the home office. Which comes about £250-£300k
On its own sounds worth doing. Even tho it means losing their own a/c, and "native" air cover.
Then you look at the SYP budget of £256,000,000 per year.
And the saving equates to 0.01% of the annual budget.
Zero point zero one percent of the budget saving.
Maybe that's why their police authority coughed at handing over their a/c for nothing and losing their own unit..
And before you look at how much that £300k saving may be still worth doing. Look at the overtime bill for CID..