Jul/090
Police officers misuse credit cards
Some credit cards were issued to police officers for job expenses have been misused.
In 2003, the Metropolitan Police gave around 3,533 American Express credit cards to the staff and officers. However, 1,400 were then taken back after the met found they were being used for expenses that were not job related and couldn’t be accounted for. More credit cards were issued in 2006 to detectives in operations such as counter-terrorism and royalty protection etc.
In 2008, one sergeant detective was given a suspended 8 month sentence for 2 years after spending over £9000 on his credit card, and another was jailed for 10 months after spending £70,000 on his credit card. In both cases the money was not used as job expenses.
Now it seems that another 300 cases have come to light, 46 of which have turned into criminal investigations.
The Metropolitan Police Authority are appalled at the fact that police officers, who not only set an example to the community but are supposed to uphold the law, are actually breaking it and committing fraud.
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