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Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,E
29 October 2007
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The police chief, his wife and
An investigation has been launched into the business relationship between a senior police officer and his wife's training company, which has received in excess of £200,000 from North Yorkshire Police.
The Yorkshire Post can also reveal that the force has begun a separate inquiry into concerns about the financial controls covering the buying and maintenance of its fleet of over 500 police vehicles.
Both inquiries are being overseen by Deputy Chief Constable Adam Briggs, who will decide if potential disciplinary action or a criminal inquiry is required.
Supt Paul Ackerley, who was in charge of training provision, has been moved back to operational duties in York while the inquiry into the force's links with a company called Northern Lights Learning and Development takes place.
North Yorkshire Police has also ceased to do business with Harrogate-based Northern Lights, of which Supt Ackerley's wife, Peta, was a director – at least until the conclusion of the investigation. The company's name was changed to Yorkshire Learning Ltd in March this year. Mrs Ackerley is listed as director, consultant and secretary.
The inquiry was set up after an audit carried out on behalf of North Yorkshire Police Authority revealed concerns which required further investigation. It will focus on the circumstances in which Northern Lights was chosen to go on a selected list of contractors and the circumstances in which the company was then awarded individual contracts of work. Much of Northern Lights' work involved equality and diversity training.
A police spokesman confirmed that training provision is managed by the director of human resources, John Porter, for the time being.
In a statement, the force said: "North Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Police Authority strive constantly to ensure the maximum efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of all aspects of its work and, as is standard procedure, we do this through the use of internal and external resources.
"These procedures have identified areas which require further examination and that is currently ongoing.
"It would be wrong to prejudge the results of this investigation before the full facts are known. Any suggestion at this stage as to the likely outcome would be pure speculation.
"We envisage that the investigation will be completed before Christmas, and we will of course provide as much detail as possible to the people of North Yorkshire and the City of York as soon as we are able."
Supt Ackerley did not respond to a request to comment.
Northern Lights received £203,899 from North Yorkshire Police to provide training between 2001/02 and 2005/06. The amount steadily increased from £907 in the first of those five years to £86,833 in the last one.
The figures were obtained from a Freedom of Information request. The force has since declined to reveal how much Northern Lights received during 2006/07.
The company did not respond to a request to comment.
North Yorkshire Police Authority (NYPA) contracts out its internal audit provision to the neighbouring police authority in West Yorkshire. Reports on both the training provision and fleet management were due to be considered at an NYPA meeting today but they have been shelved for the time being to allow the inquiries to take place.
However the concerns are referred to in an appendix on the agenda for the performance audit and scrutiny board meeting. An audit opinion says purchasing for the fleet department and arrangements for external training provision were both "unsatisfactorily controlled".
Details of the concerns surrounding the buying and maintenance of the force's fleet of vehicles are not known. But the issues are not linked to a separate review into the force's controversial policy of providing top-of-the-range Volvos and Land Rovers for all its superintendents and chief superintendents as company cars regardless of their usage or operational need.
Financial controls have been a hot political issue for North Yorkshire Police for several years after big increases in the force's budget. Aside from the company car issue, former chief constable Della Cannings was at the centre of controversy last year when it emerged £28,000 had been spent on putting a new shower suite in her office. Grahame Maxwell, who took over as chief in May, pledged a new culture on spending would be put in place under his leadership.
A police authority spokesman said: "Following two internal audits relating respectively to the provision of training services to North Yorkshire Police by external providers; and purchasing and supply arrangements within the North Yorkshire Police fleet department, investigations have been commenced."
The spokesman added: "In the interests of justice no further details will be provided at this stage of these investigations."
NYPA promised details of the audit findings would be released publicly once force investigations were completed.
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