A senior West Midlands police officer has been jailed for two years after admitting six charges of theft and obtaining money by deception.
Chief Superintendent Colin Macdonald was told that his offences, which involved £26,000, were a grave breach of trust.
Judge Alistair McCreath, sitting at Birmingham Crown Court, also took 69 other offences into account.
The court was told that the money had been obtained dishonestly from petty cash and expense claims.
One claim included a trip to a conference in Spain which Macdonald had not attended.
Macdonald was suspended in November last year from his job as divisional commander at Queens Road police station in Aston, Birmingham.