Re; How to pay for the new building. A plan set in jelly I believe.
The ex British Steel site was built on foundary waste material (slag metal) according to HQ staff, which will make it difficult to excavate or build on.
Nobody wants to build at the moment (bit of a recession).
Why would anyone want to buy an old site which has major groundwork problems to add to the cost of building houses which are not being built?
The authority chairmanMcLuckie is well aware of these problems. He is a fan of making large expense claims, and using PFI to fund the latest new police stations in the area. He was the person who shouted from the roof tops about not wanting to amalgamate with Durham and Northumbria a year or so ago. Losing personal power may be be the answer there though?
£10 million for a new HQ is a lot of money to use out of a police budget that is already facing cutbacks. Its only the publics money though isnt it!
The latest from the Cleveland Police Authority is that they are now considering privatising the SOCO dept and hand it over to the private French firm Steria!! Which is after McLuckie promised not to privatise front line Police jobs!
He's still claiming all his expenses though! The same police authority members claimed £200k in expenses for all the councillors last year
Controversial Cleveland Police partnership could be extended to include officer roles (From The Northern Echo)