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Police Authority funds in Icelandic banks
10 October 2008 by Rod McLaren
100+ local authorities and other organisations have up to £1 billion invested with Icelandic banks, and rather than directly offering guarantees against potential losses, the UK government is currently pursuing Iceland. (Interestingly, in what was an expedient but inflammatory move, the UK used anti-terrorism legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK.)
The APA reports that there are 15 Police Authorities in England and Wales that have £95.7 million cash invested with Icelandic banks. These are the forces:
- Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has around £30m deposited in troubled Icelandic banks and is calling for the government to protect it against any potential losses.
- Kent Police Authority £11.1m
- Dorset Police Authority has £7m deposits in the form of temporary loans to Landsbanki and Heritable
- South Wales Police Authority has £7m
- Sussex Police Authority has deposits of £6.8m invested in Icelandic banks
- West Yorkshire Police Authority said it had invested £6m in Iceland and “it is not anticipated that this will have an impact on day-to-day policing”
- Humberside Police Authority: £5.75m
- West Midlands Police Authority: £5.4m
- Thames Valley Police Authority: £5m
- Northumbria Police Authority: £3.5m
- Hertfordshire Police Authority confirmed it had invested £3m in Heritable Bank, the UK arm of insolvent Landbanksi
- Dyfed-Powys Police Authority: £2m
- Surrey Police Authority: £1.5m
- Gwent Police Authority has £1m
- Lancashire Police Authority: £0.67m
The APA represents police authorities in England and Wales only. However, an Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland spokesman says that none of Scotland’s eight forces had investments in the collapsed banks, and there’s no news yet whether the Police Service of Northern Ireland has any money at risk.
Where the Police Authorities are commenting on it, they’re saying that they have invested according to the rules, and that there will be little immediate impact upon front-line policing. However, if the funds aren’t recovered there may be reduced capital expenditure in the next couple of years, and potentially an increased reliance upon central government funding programmes for modernisation, mobile and IT projects, such as those currently administered by NPIA.