NEWS: Met Police spent £216k phoning directory enquiries & £35k on speaking clock

It's absolutely shocking but, following a Freedom of Information request, it has been revealed that the Met Police spent £35,000 telephoning the speaking clock in the past two years. Do they not have watches? Or clocks? Or mobile phones? Or computers?

Additionally, in the same time, the Met Police spent £216,000 phoning directory enquiries!

At £216k it would have been cheaper to employ a team of people to internally look up numbers for them - or get them to use online directory services like most sane people do!

I wonder if all police forces around the country have similar extravagant telephone use and what other premium services they have been using.

With this information in mind, there can be no excuses for some drastic cuts being made to police budgets.... and some senior heads must roll.