MPA welcomes IPCC report ‘Abuse of Metropolitan Police issued AMEX cards’

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28 September 2011

The MPA is committed to ensuring that officers and staff use resources appropriately and welcomes the IPCC’s report ‘Abuse of Metropolitan Police issued AMEX cards’.

The MPA worked with considerable effort and resources to pursue the misuse of Amex cards in the MPS and those officers who fraudulently used their Amex cards for personal gain have been identified, held to account through the courts or misconduct proceedings, resulting in dismissals and criminal convictions.

The case that started the investigations into Amex cards was initiated from within the MPA’s internal audit directorate who received a ‘whistleblowing’ call. Amex claims from over 3,000 officers were initially sorted, sifted, and reviewed within internal audit so that only those cases appropriate for investigation were forwarded to the MPS Directorate of Professional Standards.

Any civil recovery issues of over claimed monies were also dealt with by the Authority. The cases involving the investigation of ACPO rank officers were decided with by the Authority’s Professional Standards Cases Sub-Committee.

The investigation also led to weaknesses in the corporate credit card system being identified. 34 recommendations were made by the DPS in full consultation with the MPA internal audit and MPS Exchequer Services to be incorporated into a new corporate credit card system, along with robust processes for handling expenditure claims.

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