Ex-Cleveland Police chief Sean Price is being sued by the former police authority over £450,000 of alleged unlawful payments relating to his salary and bonuses.
Mr Price, from North Yorkshire, told a preliminary hearing at Newcastle Crown Court today that he was representing himself in the civil case.
The former Cleveland Police Authority is seeking to recover £450,000 worth of alleged unlawful payments with interest.
A two-week hearing has been set for March next year at a venue yet to be decided.
Outside court, Mr Price said it was his case that Cleveland Police Authority wanted him to stay as Chief Constable and made payments to him in order to fulfil that.
He added: “I don’t think it’s lawful what they are trying to do.”
Dad-of-two Mr Price was arrested in August 2011 and sacked in October 2012 - the first police chief to be fired in 35 years - after a disciplinary hearing found he had lied about the role he played in the recruitment of former police authority chairman Dave McLuckie’s daughter.
Mr Price denied wrongdoing.
When he took up his role as chief constable in 2003, his original salary of £125,000 included a £32,000 car allowance, £4,000 a year towards private school fees for his son, and £1,000 towards private health insurance.
By 2011, he was on £191,000-a-year.
Any judgement against him could lay claim to his home, £300,000 pension payout, and assets.
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