No government cash for Capital of Culture police
Mar 30 2007
by Ben Rossington, Liverpool Echo

CASH to pay for Liverpool’s Capital of Culture policing will not be coming from the government.

At key talks yesterday, policing and security minister Tony McNulty told Merseyside Police and the Merseyside Police Authority there was no cash in Home Office coffers.

Instead, police will have to turn to the lottery, local businesses or look “down the back of the couch” to find £10m needed to put extra officers on the streets during the celebrations.

Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe is already in talks with developer Grosvenor over the possibility of private sector funding.

Cllr Bill Weightman, chairman of Merseyside Police Authority, said: “From the beginning, Mr McNulty made it clear there was no money.

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