Met chief enlists buyers to deliver better service
28 August 2012
Procurement within the UK’s largest police force must operate in a rapidly changing environment if it is to meet the public’s increasing demands.
In his keynote address to the CIPS Premier Conference last week, Sir John Stevens, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, told delegates that the public is “more questioning than ever of its institutions”.
Events beginning with the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York had placed increasing pressures on London’s police, which has a quarter of all...