In message , Steve Firth
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:30:57 +0000, Steven Briggs wrote:

Some of you may remember a thread a month or two back about the Chief
Constable of North Yorkshire spending £24000 on a refurb of the en-suite
shower room to her office.

Ah yes, terrible unforseen circumstances, etc, etc.

But the same lot have also spent a fecking fortune on installing a sunshade
in the garden which they could have purchased from the most expensive
supplier in Europe for about 1/10th of the price.

http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/...ess/canopy.htm

That's one expensive tarpaulin


Oh look, it's the same Chief Constable posing in front of the errrm, thing.

I've been to the police headquarters in question, it's very nice. Peaceful,
located near a top notch hotel and restaurant. Miles from anywhere.

The term "ivory tower" came to mind.

Misuse of funds more like

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geoff