DEPUTY PREMIER TALKS TOUGH AFTER $100 MILLION COST BLOW-OUT

The government will not put another cent into Victoria Police's new crime database says deputy premier Peter Ryan, following a $100 million cost blow-out.
THE proposed new Victoria Police crime database - which has been shelved by the Baillieu government due to soaring costs - would have cut crime and generated up to $258 million in benefits, according to the original business plan for the system.
Police stopped the LINK database project yesterday, admitting they had underestimated its cost by at least $100 million, after the government demanded a second business case to justify the extra funding.
Police Minister Peter Ryan said police would not get ''another cent'' for the new system until the government knew where taxpayers' money had been spent.

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