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Ian Blair to quit as Met chief
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I did. Thank you for the information. Not sure what I can do with it. But it is nice to know.
Man of Harveys
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Hoo-f***ing-ray. At long, long last.
London Calling
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and the new Mayor wants to get rid of him
'Statement due' on Sir Ian Blair
The Met Police chief has been under fire on three fronts
A "significant" statement is expected later on the future of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, the BBC understands.
The announcement follows new newspaper reports on the use of public money to pay a close friend to advise him.
Sir Ian has previously rejected the suggestion he "behaved inappropriately" on the issue.
He has also faced criticism over the racism row involving the Met's most senior Asian officer Tarique Ghaffur.
There have been questions too about his handling of events surrounding the 2005 death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead at Stockwell Underground station in south London after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.
Sir Ian has been commissioner since February 2005.
Last month, he was forced to deny newspaper reports that he is to be ousted from Scotland Yard when his contract expires in 2010.
Metropolitan Police Authority [MPA] auditors are in the process of examining Scotland Yard contracts given to consultancy firm Impact Plus, run by his friend.
Sir Ian has said he had been "open and straightforward in informing both the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] and the MPA about my relationship with someone who was subsequently awarded a contract with the MPS".
'Statement due' on Sir Ian Blair
The Met Police chief has been under fire on three fronts
A "significant" statement is expected later on the future of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, the BBC understands.
The announcement follows new newspaper reports on the use of public money to pay a close friend to advise him.
Sir Ian has previously rejected the suggestion he "behaved inappropriately" on the issue.
He has also faced criticism over the racism row involving the Met's most senior Asian officer Tarique Ghaffur.
There have been questions too about his handling of events surrounding the 2005 death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead at Stockwell Underground station in south London after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.
Sir Ian has been commissioner since February 2005.
Last month, he was forced to deny newspaper reports that he is to be ousted from Scotland Yard when his contract expires in 2010.
Metropolitan Police Authority [MPA] auditors are in the process of examining Scotland Yard contracts given to consultancy firm Impact Plus, run by his friend.
Sir Ian has said he had been "open and straightforward in informing both the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] and the MPA about my relationship with someone who was subsequently awarded a contract with the MPS".
In 2006, Blair was forced to apologise to the families of the Soham murder victims, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. He said "almost nobody" could understand why the disappearance of the girls, in August 2002, had dominated the news headlines and become "the biggest story in Britain".
Just found this on the guardian website. What a lovely bloke he must be!!
Just found this on the guardian website. What a lovely bloke he must be!!
The Clown of Pevensey Bay
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Boris Johnson formally took over as chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority YESTERDAY. I would suggest there is probably a connection: the only people who ever stood up for Sir Ian Blair were Labour types.
Oh -- and how did he ever get knighted? ALL Met commissioners and deputy commissioners are knighted, by convention, a bit like high court judges. Ian Blair was deputy commissioner when he got his K.
Oh -- and how did he ever get knighted? ALL Met commissioners and deputy commissioners are knighted, by convention, a bit like high court judges. Ian Blair was deputy commissioner when he got his K.
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definately, Boris has not hidden his feelings about blair.
Blair is a liberal minded fellow.
Back to Soham, I agree with Blair as I have posted on here before, literally the same day 2 african children disapeared from Stratford, East London. The press were not interested.
The soham children frenzy meant the Government and POlice had to be seen doing something so unprecedented Police were shipped in, some from London.
LOcally in Stratford, the local POlice did not receive extra resources.
TV did not publish the story or their faces on the box, newspapers did not show their faces, the radio didn't cover the news.
They were black kids, from a poor background, they didn't wear the shirts of Man U.
If only 1% of the media resources used on the Soham twins could have used for them, it may have made a difference.
They were never found.
I assume they are dead.
- Jul 7, 2003
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I agree he was slightly misrepresented on the Soham story, but there's been so much other crap attached to him lately that he can't have any credibility amongst Met officers.
Whether there's anything in the other issues surrounding him, I have no idea, but you can only go on so long before mud sticks and it begins to drag the rest of the force down.
About time he got over himself and jacked it in IMHO.
Whether there's anything in the other issues surrounding him, I have no idea, but you can only go on so long before mud sticks and it begins to drag the rest of the force down.
About time he got over himself and jacked it in IMHO.
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The Clown of Pevensey Bay
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He comes across as a pompous, tactless, self-important buffoon. And he's just the kind of namby-pamby liberal that Sir John Stephens wasn't. But the neighbourhood policing scheme (a dedicated sergeant, two PCs and two PCSOs fo EVERY WARD in London) was pretty good. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have known that my local copper was called PC Eddie Izzard, for starters.
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Gina gold has quit as Inspector at Sun Hill.
Will The Bill ever be the same?
Will The Bill ever be the same?
Lord Bracknell
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The resignation was inevitable.
But the disturbing thing is the way the Tories seem intent on politicising senior police appointments. Boris has got rid of Blair. And tonight on Question Time, Heseltine is promising that the Tories will go for directly elected Heads of Police Authorities "to give local people a say".
I can only see that delivering us a divided and ineffective police force, with Chief Constables no longer commanding the respect of their own officers.
It's very worring.
But the disturbing thing is the way the Tories seem intent on politicising senior police appointments. Boris has got rid of Blair. And tonight on Question Time, Heseltine is promising that the Tories will go for directly elected Heads of Police Authorities "to give local people a say".
I can only see that delivering us a divided and ineffective police force, with Chief Constables no longer commanding the respect of their own officers.
It's very worring.
Beach Hut
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Really LB another cheap dig at the Tories, keep going as the reds time is nearly up
Lord Bracknell
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It's not just a dig at the Tories - although I can only imagine what the reaction would be if a Labour government had proposed direct elections for Police Authority heads.
It's an expression of concern about the politicisation of the police. Do you really want, say, Manchester's overwhelmingly Labour voters going to the polls in support of a jumped up Labour Party hack's campaign to sack the city's top cop and replace him with someone who will be "more accountable to local people"?
Would that deliver better policing?
Do you want EVERY Chief Constable to be more concerned about what one local politician thinks than he is about doing something to keep crime down?
Lord Bracknell
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... and yes ... I'm aware of issues about policing in Manchester.
Beach Hut
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Such sour grapes LB, the red flag is being lowered at last and good news.