Police defend $28,000 taxpayer-funded makeover for top cop's office
Police are standing by a top cop's $14,000 spend at an upmarket interior design store.
The taxpayer-funded spend-up was for remodelling the office of Southern District commander Superintendent Paul Basham, who oversees Otago and Southland.
The 2017 purchases from Moi on George in Dunedin included a chair ($2604), console ($3348), desk ($2430), "meeting leaner" ($1644), six stools ($1978) and couch ($1040).
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