Parliament freezes EU Police College funds over dodgy accounts

The European Parliament has frozen the funding of the UK-based European Police College over dodgy accounting at the EU agency.

Euro-deputies on Thursday refused to sign off its budget for 2008, declaring that the European Police College (Cepol), launched in 2006 to establish a network of European police officers via training courses, seminars and exchange programmes, "has yet to meet good standards of administration."

In a frank statement issued by the chamber, which has offered b...