diff --git a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/chunker/ChunkerMETool.java b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/chunker/ChunkerMETool.java
index e9fdbe302..161b68982 100644
--- a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/chunker/ChunkerMETool.java
+++ b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/chunker/ChunkerMETool.java
@@ -59,11 +59,10 @@ public void run(String[] args) {
 
       ChunkerME chunker = new ChunkerME(model);
 
-      PerformanceMonitor perfMon = null;
+      PerformanceMonitor perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
 
       try (ObjectStream<String> lineStream = new PlainTextByLineStream(
               new SystemInputStreamFactory(), SystemInputStreamFactory.encoding())) {
-        perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
         perfMon.start();
         String line;
         while ((line = lineStream.read()) != null) {
diff --git a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/parser/ParserTool.java b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/parser/ParserTool.java
index 90ba1f44d..5006d300b 100644
--- a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/parser/ParserTool.java
+++ b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/parser/ParserTool.java
@@ -136,11 +136,10 @@ public void run(String[] args) {
 
       Parser parser = ParserFactory.create(model, beamSize, advancePercentage);
 
-      PerformanceMonitor perfMon = null;
+      PerformanceMonitor perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
       try (ObjectStream<String> lineStream = new PlainTextByLineStream(
               new SystemInputStreamFactory(), SystemInputStreamFactory.encoding())) {
         
-        perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
         perfMon.start();
         String line;
         while ((line = lineStream.read()) != null) {
diff --git a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/postag/POSTaggerTool.java b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/postag/POSTaggerTool.java
index d5e61a1bf..df682594f 100644
--- a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/postag/POSTaggerTool.java
+++ b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/postag/POSTaggerTool.java
@@ -60,12 +60,11 @@ public void run(String[] args) {
 
       POSTaggerME tagger = new POSTaggerME(model);
 
-      PerformanceMonitor perfMon = null;
+      PerformanceMonitor perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
 
       try (ObjectStream<String> lineStream = new PlainTextByLineStream(
               new SystemInputStreamFactory(), SystemInputStreamFactory.encoding())) {
 
-        perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
         perfMon.start();
         String line;
         while ((line = lineStream.read()) != null) {
diff --git a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/tokenizer/CommandLineTokenizer.java b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/tokenizer/CommandLineTokenizer.java
index 9ff6dedf8..2b774b5f8 100644
--- a/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/tokenizer/CommandLineTokenizer.java
+++ b/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/cmdline/tokenizer/CommandLineTokenizer.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ void process() {
     ObjectStream<String> untokenizedLineStream;
 
     ObjectStream<String> tokenizedLineStream;
-    PerformanceMonitor perfMon = null;
+    PerformanceMonitor perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
     try {
       untokenizedLineStream =
               new PlainTextByLineStream(new SystemInputStreamFactory(), SystemInputStreamFactory.encoding());
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ void process() {
       tokenizedLineStream = new WhitespaceTokenStream(
               new TokenizerStream(tokenizer, untokenizedLineStream));
 
-      perfMon = new PerformanceMonitor("sent");
       perfMon.start();