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The former head of Britain’s biggest police force has been cleared of wrongdoing over its awarding of IT contracts worth £3million to his skiing partner and confidant. Sir Ian Blair, the ex-Metropolitan Police Commissioner, will be vindicated by a long-running inquiry into the tendering of the IT contracts when it reports later this week. The inquiry, by another ex-top cop, will find Sir Ian broke no rules to do with his friend landing police IT work, reported the Daily Mail, citing unnamed sources. It was ordered amid concern that Andy Miller, who has taken holidays with Sir Ian, unfairly won Scotland Yard IT deals worth £150,000 for his consultancy Impact Plus. The selection of Mr Miller’s firm to install a 999 calling system for the C3i scheme was said to be in spite of rival bid of a reported £57,000; almost a third of the price. Sir Ian rejected improper behaviour in relation to the IT deal, and pointed out that he declared his interest in Impact to the Metropolitan Police Authority from the outset. But as deputy commissioner, he did attend presentations by Impact, and the resulting deal was not examined by the MPA, which only vets IT deals worth £5m and upwards. The report clearing Sir Ian relates only to C3i, and does not test claims that Impact won unpaid IT work at Surrey Police when he was its chief constable from 1998 to 2000. Jun 8, 2009 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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