Mr Price and his deputy Derek Bonnard were arrested in August 2011 as part of Operation Sacristy, a criminal investigation into allegations of corruption at the force.
Sean Price, who was sacked in October, and Derek Bonnard started an action against three forces and the director of the National Crime Agency last May.
The suspension - said by the force to be a neutral act - follows Mr Price's sacking last year, allegations against his deputy Derek Bonnard, who faces a misconduct hearing on 4 March, and the wide-ranging Operation Sacristy investigation into alleged corruption.
Derek Headey of the International Food Policy Research Institute has shown that despite the world food-price spike, people's assessment of their own food situation in most poor and middle-income countries was better in 2008 than it had been in 2006.