The Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Hogg, and his 23 staff are to relocate to Police HQ in Middlemoor after he said when he was appointed that it would be inappropriate to be in the same building. We pay £100,000 a year for his current offices.
“Devon and Cornwall Police has to save another £9m in the financial year 2015-16, on top of £51m in cuts made over the last four years.
In 2013, Mr Hogg was criticised for using accommodation allowances to stay at the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, rather than Middlemoor.
At that point, he said: “My role is all about holding the chief constable and the police force to account on the public’s behalf, and therefore it is not appropriate for my office, or my accommodation, to be sited there.”
Is it some sort of virus? Austerity? Not in my (new) back yard!
East Devon Watch 
This is what the Cornuishman newspaper quotes Mr Hogg as saying in June 20123 when he was questioned about his overnight allowance claims.
He said: “My role is all about holding the Chief Constable and the police force to account on the public’s behalf, and therefore it is not appropriate for my office, or my accommodation, to be sited there.*
What has changed with regard to the appropriateness of where his is based?
This is another decision that should be on hold until after the election as Labour plan to scrap police criime commissioners.
*Source http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Cornwall-Police-Commissioner-criticised-officers/story-19436051-detail/story.html#ixzz3TDcMBUAh
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