A former top Huddersfield police officer has been ordered to pay back tens of thousands of pounds in expenses.
Adam Briggs is one of two ex-police chiefs who will be asked to pay back almost £100,000 after a review found their allowance packages may have had no “solid legal basis”.
Grahame Maxwell and Mr Briggs will be asked to return the cash to North Yorkshire Police following a Police and Crime Commissioner review.
Full details of the report are due to be made public next month .
The review covers a six-year period from 2008 to 2013 – the legal time limit within which the payments can be recovered.
Mr Maxwell was North Yorkshire’s Chief Constable until May, 2012, and Mr Briggs was deputy chief constable from 2007 until he retired in 2011.
Mr Briggs used to live in Scapegoat Hill and was a senior officer with the West Yorkshire force in Huddersfield.
Mr Maxwell also served for several years with West Yorkshire Police.
A statement from the police commissioner’s office said Mr Maxwell and Mr Briggs would now be asked for further information about their allowance packages and would be asked to repay “certain sums” to a total of £99,866.
Police commissioner Ms Julia Mulligan said legal advice would also be sought about how to recover money if it was not paid voluntarily.
