Police: Defamation
(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether public funds are used by the Police Federation to support defamation litigation.
This question was answered on 16th June 2014
Funding provided by the Government to the Police Federation of England and Wales may only be used for specific purposes. These are to pay part of the salaries of its principal officers, and to support their statutory function in negotiating the pay of police officers.
As the Home Secretary announced on 21 May, all Government funding provided to the Police Federation will cease by August this year.