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Article: Balloons, buckets and plastic ducks 'help cut crime' EXECUTIVE: TEAM BUILDING EXECUTIVE: TEAM BUILDING Anger at GBP25,000 justice department away day
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- January 14, 2007
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THE priorities of the Scottish Executive justice department has
been questioned after GBP25,000 of public money was spent on helping
staff master the art of juggling chiffon scarves.
Two hundred crime-busting civil servants also used their "mega
away day" to play with balloons and fish plastic ducks out of
buckets.
The activities are recorded in the latest issue of the Executive's
in-house magazine, Scoop, which notes the "mammoth group outing",
which took place in Edinburgh last September, was organised by
justice head Robert Gordon.
In a previous life, Gordon was the civil servant in charge of the
GBP431 million Holyrood project, which was completed four years late
and 10 times over budget.