[alexriddle]

I suspect the unit would be funded directly by Sky - the advantage to doing it that way is that they have access to the CPS and police intelligence, as well as all the powers the police have which they wouldn't if it was done in house.

Insurance fraud is run along the same lines, all insurers contribute towards IFED which is a part of the City of London police tasked with tackling insurance fraud. If this relied on public funding I doubt anything but the most extreme cases of insurance fraud would be investigated.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> I suspect the unit would be funded directly by Sky

So if politicians won't sell a corp the LEO they want, the corp can just purchase them directly.

[Joker_vD]

Well, I imagine it's about ROI and cost effectiveness: sometimes it's cheaper to buy the politicians already in-place, sometimes it's cheaper to buy the elections for newly-elected ones, and sometimes it's cheaper to just go straight to the executive branch and buy a small part of it instead.

[fullspectrumdev]

Yeah that’s not how things work in Ireland.

This would entirely fall on the Irish taxpayer (me) to foot the bill.

Might write to my TD to specifically tell them to oppose the idea for the craic.