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Date published: 24 December 2010 defended POLICE chiefs today its decision, more than £ 1 million Tommy Sheridan in advance his perjury investigation to spend trial.
• Tommy Sheridan leaves the Court in Glasgow yesterday after the perjury found guilty will
Lothian and borders police spent four years, the investigation of the case is to interview travel, United Kingdom and Europe, witnesses.
The power costs officers until there became a detective Chief Inspector involved in the investigation of inspectors, almost £ 920,000 in personal payments between August 2006 and August of this year, the news can reveal.
A further £ 270,000 he spent the inquiry itself including overtime payments to conduct "transport, goods and services".
Police Chiefs said today the money was spent as the force "had duty, investigate all allegations of criminal misconduct to make sure that the ends of justice are met".
• Poll: What justified the £ 1 m investigation by the police in advance of the Sheridan study?
The figures obtained using freedom of information laws were revealed in the aftermath of yesterday's verdict the 46-year old former MSP High Court in Glasgow.
He has been guilty found after a 12-week trial, lie during his successful libel case against the news of the world newspapers in 2006 about stories, he was an adulterer and visited a swinger's Club.
A sentence is now Sheridan, who once led the Scottish Socialist Party if he is convicted in January.
During the test, Hugh Kerr, spokesman for Sheridan's solidarity party, proposed by his own freedom of information that upwards of £ 1 requests. 5 m had to have the police investigation, been issued, the trial version, calculation, he believed an estimated £ 2 m or £ 3 m.
A police spokeswoman said: "this was a complex study of four years and there is no doubt that the complexity and length of the investigation has a significant cost savings implication for Lothian and borders police had."
"Nevertheless, the power was to investigate a direct statement from the Crown, and we have a duty, investigate all allegations of criminal misconduct to ensure that the ends of justice are met."
The force said none of the witnesses in Lothians and borders that caused lived officers to travel throughout the UK and Ireland, Denmark and the Channel Islands.
Last updated: 24 December 2010 1: 46 PM source: Edinburgh evening news location: Edinburgh related topics: Tommy Sheridan and solidarity
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