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Police hit by GBP260k bill from GBPmulti-billion phone firms for key evidence.
(From Bristol Evening Post)
Mobile phone companies have charged police more than GBP250,000 to provide vital evidence to catch criminals.
A request under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed the Avon and Somerset force was made to pay GBP263,413.62 to retrieve records of suspects' telephone calls between April 2007 and March this year.
That means GBP721 of taxpayers' money went to multi-billion pound organisations every day during the year.
The three biggest recipients were Vodaphone, Orange and T-Mobile, with an average of GBP87,804 going to each. This is set against profits of about GBP10 billion for Vodafone, about GBP12 billion for Orange and GBP15 billion for T-Mobile.
The police made 3,973 applications for data in 12 months, seeking telephone records and information at an average of GBP66 per request.
However, transport company First Group is believed to have charged police almost half the phone companies' bill for just one request - to retrieve CCTV equipment to assist with a terrorism investigation earlier this year.
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