"Lieutenant-General Sir David Richards, who takes over as chief of the general staff in August, expressed his concern that servicemen were pilfering and abusing the Army's joint personnel administration (JPA).
Introduced last year, the JPA system allows expenses to be claimed by soldiers via computer, which are checked randomly.
In a document published on The Sunday Times website - which the Ministry of Defence confirmed was genuine - Sir David wrote: "I am becoming concerned over the prevalence of fraudulent behaviour as well as what I can at best describe as 'sharp practice' and at worst dishonesty."
He added: "There are soldiers and even some officers who view JPA as a 'cash machine' and are processing fraudulent claims in the belief that if caught they will claim ignorance and hope to refund the monies with no further action."
Well, why not ?.. it works well enough for MPs
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And just like the brass hats who decided Snatch Land Rovers would be perfectly suitable for Iraq and Afghanistan. They claim ignorance and hope that buying several years late insufficient numbers of the right stuff they sold as surplus after using in Bosnia will make things ok and get them honours.
I was crying out to say the very same all through that post.
Bleedin' obvious, ain't it ! The rot starts at the head.
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