Police concerns on privatisation
A £1.5bn police privatisation plan was in jeopardy last night after a chief constable behind the scheme admitted feeling “a little cautious” and called a pause in the project. Chief Constable of Surrey, Lynne Owens, said in an internal message that there was a need to “calm the horses” in the face of concern about the country’s largest privatisation deal. The front-runner for the joint contract offered by Surrey and West Midlands Police is believed to be the US corporation KBR, which helped to build the Guantánamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.