Public bodies spent £3.9m on private investigators

Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent by local authorities to snoop on the public and their own staff, a pressure group has revealed.

Big Brother Watch used Freedom of Information requests to discover that over the past two years a total of £3.9m of taxpayers' money was spent by 37 councils, four quangos, and a central government department – the Department for Transport – hiring private detectives.
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