Dorset Scamera Partnership Dodgy Accounts ??????

[cptsideways]

If this is not dodgy goings on I don't know what is?

Scameras R us said:

www.dorsetsafetycameras.org.uk/news/78.htm During the reporting period, the number of offences paid in Dorset was 23,733, amounting to receipts of £1,423,980. The costs of running the Partnership for 2002/2003 were £1,423,392.

Talk about massaging the figures


Is this a case of lets meet the costs budget by fleecing more motorists in the last month of the financial year or spending money furiously in the same period.

Perhaps I shall ask some questions....

>>> Edited by cptsideways on Wednesday 18th February 10:33

[d-man]

Common practice in the public sector, furiously spend the remnants of your budget during the last financial quarter so that you aren't an obvious target for having your budget cut. Stupid really, they scrimp on everything for the vast majority of the year, realise they've underspent and then see how much money they can spend just so they can do the same again next year.

I guess the people running the scamera partnership don't want to surrender any money to the government so they try the same, either that or raising large amounts of money would be politically bad for them so they have to lose it somewhere.

[Peter Ward]

I believe it's called "May money".

[JMGS4]

So how many hundreds of thousands were pissed away on "entertainment" and "new furniture" or "new offices"..? funnily enough they don't publish a breakdown of their figures!!!

[cptsideways]

I've asked the question by email, I'll post their response.





I put at the bottom of the email:

"I and many others await your reply in eager anticipation.........."