02 December, 2008

UK: new police chief

Among the runners and riders for the job of Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police are:

Bob Quick, the head of the specialist unit which carried out the raid on Damien Green

Acting commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, who authorised the raid

The head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Ken Jones, who is fiercely supportive of the way the Met have behaved.

I wrote some time ago that the way to decide which candidate is suitable is to ask them to list in order the public's concerns and match their answers to a survey of the public. Clearly these three are miles off target and should be rejected.

Unfortunately the position is in the gift of the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.

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