Four bosses who quit the troubled Scottish Police Authority (SPA) shared a £500,000 redundancy payment pot, The Sunday Post can reveal.
Andrea Quinn quit her job as interim chief executive of the police watchdog last June along with two other directors at a time of a high-profile “turf war” between Police Scotland and the SPA over the division of power.
SPA accounts show Quinn picked up £137,000 in a redundancy payment, while three other SPA directors who left last year received an average of £116,000.
The SPA’s annual report also reveals 941 people left Police Scotland under voluntary redundancy and retirement deals in 2013/14 at a cost of £30.9m.
Scottish Conservative Chief Whip John Lamont said: “We supported the creation of Police Scotland on the basis it would save money.
“Paying eye-watering golden goodbyes was not part of this understanding.”
An SPA spokeswoman said: “The directors’ severance package, agreed by the SPA board, offered directors one year’s salary plus three months’ retention to exit on a date set by the SPA.
“It was recognised that pre-existing director roles within the legacy organisations may not be required within the new permanent structure of SPA. The directors’ severance package was opened before March 31, 2013, and directors were free to apply at that time.”
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