Row simmers over Yorkshire Tour de France police funding

Take no notice of the crime commissioner she is just scare mongering.

When a big event is organised the force that covers it will cancel rest days well in advance so all it costs is a re-rostered rest day which is not financial.

It happens all the time when there is a local derby / demonstration etc etc.

Good luck Yorkshire, ooh that hurt coming from the Red Rose county!

If you can't afford it....you can't have it.
Come on chaps think of the people filling your hotels/campsites/restaurants/shops(the wags), there is going to be quite a bit of money coming your way one way or another.
I think you all need a positive attitude and stop moaning, not easy if you are from Yorkshire it seems.

By actually reading the article it seems policing is being addressed and this is just another attempt by Whitehall to create loss of confidence within the public for Yorkshire hosting the event.

I am more concerned that London 2012 cost the UK taxpayer billions, London crossrail is costing UK taxpayers over £15 Billion and Boris (who has not had any cuts to budgets and funding) can afford £900 Million on cycling. I also wonder who or where the funding for policing for RideLondon came from? No questions asked from BC or Hugh Robertson then.

It all stems from jealousy and the obsession of London centric. As for saying BC have "experience" in this "sort of thing" tell that to the people who have lost thousands in charity money and entrants who lost £200 each on the BC backed Silverstone 24 SCAM.

Its pathetic attempt to discredit Yorkshire. If the Edinburgh to London bid won the funding would have been unlimited (they only wanted this bid due to the Scotland Vote of independence).

NYP should have been involved fom the start. To paraphrase - "build it and then someone will have to pay for it".
But then WTY are a marketing organisation - that's what they do best. Market. They do not run events.
It is unfortunate that BC was not involved (or informed) in the bid, as they do run them.
These facts are well known, both down south and oop north - hence earlier scepticism in official, unconsulted, circles. They are then laughably twisted into anti-Yorkshire sentiments which obscure the facts.

As far as a tourism windfall goes - it's only 2 days. In the high season. Spectacular as it will be, it is not going to make much difference in the long run.

£500k? That'll be the bonus and expenses for the Chief Constable and his deputies? So much for self-sacrifice in the spirit of giving to the community they serve

ha what a joke, typical northern organisation ....

Typical Yorkshire attitude when it comes to putting their hands in their pockets. Miserly lot!

History repeats itself?

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/348493/tour-of-britain-yorksh...

perhaps an FOI request into the failed Scottish bid to see the detail of their figures?

Stands to reason North Yorkshire gets big slice of tourism income as well as policing

North Yorkshire police huh...

Millions of people want the Tour over here
Millions of people will enjoy the Tour over here

The bill for policing the G8 was apparently £75m, I don't think that's worth it and I can't imagine the millions of people wanted it.

Can't the local MP just put on his/her expenses?

I'd be interested in how the policing costs are calculated - I'm quite sure that the police force and local authorities will tend towards over-policing the event. Discussions I've been involved with seem to have an excessive focus on trying to control what the visitors to the event can do rather than looking at how well events like this run elsewhere and taking guidance from that.

Of course the police ought to have been consulted earlier, in fact when the bid was being created, but I would expect they would put in excessive policing and therefore more cost than necessary.

There is a tendancy in this country to over-police events and then find that there are not sufficient resources for everything else. E.G.the police in GM say they only investigate 40% of reported crimes yet there are frequently large numbers of officers out in Manchester policing very low risk events.

Given that the bid has gone ahead without adequate funding in place or proper costing I think UK Sports description is somewhat true.

I think the amounts they are talking about £500k to £1 million are not very big considering the amount of money that will come into the local economy and the size of policing budgets.

Just out of interest (and I genuinely don't know) who pays for the extra policing costs incurred for cup football matches ?

*Awaits Gkam's response*

Typical southern centric politics,

I didn't particularly want £9 billion pounds spent to regenerate Stratford and the Lea Valley, but when you see the National pride and joy brought by the Olympics then you don't begrudge it.

Why is it Whitehall cant get behind anything that isn't London Centric.

I for one one would publically donate towards the costs of bringing the tour to Yorkshire and seeing the pro-peloton race through the stunning countryside rather than paying for constant repeats up Box hill.

Get over it and get on board, London/ Edinburgh are not the centre of the World.