"to policing in The Queen's 2009 New Year Honours' List. Tim Godwin Timothy John Godwin, OBE, QPM was a senior British police officer, and former Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service, having served from July 2009 until November 2011. He held the post of Acting Commissioner, following the resignation of the Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson in July 2011 and remained in post until his replacement, Bernard Hogan-Howe, was formally appointed on 12 September 2011. Godwin had previously been Acting Deputy Commissioner from December 2008 following the promotion of the previous incumbent, Sir Paul Stephenson, to Commissioner; he was substantively"
"Paul Stephenson (police officer) Sir Paul Robert Stephenson (born 26 September 1953) was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner from 2009 to 2011. Stephenson joined the Lancashire police in 1975 and attended the Bramshill staff training course. As a superintendent, he was closely involved in the inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster. After serving as chief constable of Lancashire, he was promoted deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 2005, acting commissioner in 2008, and finally commissioner in January 2009. In July 2011, Stephenson resigned over speculation regarding his connection with Neil Wallis, suspected of involvement in the News International phone"
"they were being followed."" In May 2008, it was reported in the press that Blair's contract as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service would not be renewed when it expired in 2010. On 2 October 2008, Blair announced he would resign as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, with effect from 1 December 2008. He blamed a lack of support from London mayor Boris Johnson, saying that ""without the mayor's backing I do not think I can continue"". Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to Blair's service. Sir Paul Stephenson took over on 28 November 2008. Blair is"
"Metropolitan Police and Britain's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, announced his resignation with immediate effect. He had faced criticism for hiring former ""News of the World"" executive editor Neil Wallis as an advisor and for having received free hospitality at a luxury health spa owned by a company for which Wallis also worked. Stephenson's resignation was followed by that of assistant commissioner John Yates on 18 July. Yates had been criticised for failing to re-open the original 2006 investigation into phone hacking at News International, despite new evidence coming to light in 2009. In the wake of the"
"to misleading statements to the public and government oversight bodies to cover-up wrongdoing, and/or led to attempts to stifle the voices of whistle-blowers. Metropolitan Police spokespersons have maintained that investigations were pursued appropriately in light of information and guidance available to them and in light of competing priorities for their resources. While Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1993 to 2000, Paul Condon established the Met's anti-corruption unit, acknowledging that police corruption was not an occasional threat, but a permanent, ongoing one. Condon's initiatives all but closed down communication between Met police and the news media. Condon's successor, John Stevens"
"largest police force in the United Kingdom, responsible for policing Greater London, except for the financial district, the City of London. The latter has its own force, the City of London Police. The Met's commissioner at the time was Sir Paul Stephenson; the City of London Police commissioner was Mike Bowron. Responsibility for supervising the Met falls to the Metropolitan Police Authority, chaired by the Mayor of London, at the time Boris Johnson. The officer seen pushing Tomlinson was a constable with the Met's Territorial Support Group (TSG), identified by the ""U"" on their shoulder numbers. The TSG specializes in"
"was announced he would become acting commissioner of the Met from 1 December, following the resignation of Sir Ian Blair. In January 2009 it was announced that he had been appointed as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service. Stephenson is a close colleague of his contemporary, Sir Norman Bettison, having worked with him during the Hilsborogh enquiry when both were acting as support to their chief constables. Stephenson was nicknamed ""Rusty"" by colleagues in the Metropolitan Police, referring to his ""near-permanent tan"". In July 2011, Stephenson's judgement was questioned after it emerged that Neil Wallis, a former executive editor of"
"Cressida Dick Cressida Rose Dick (born 16 October 1960) is a British police officer, currently the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London. She is the first woman to take charge of the service, being selected for the role in February 2017 and taking office on 10 April 2017. Previously she was a senior officer in the MPS. Dick served as acting Deputy Commissioner in the interim between Deputy Commissioner Tim Godwin's retirement and his permanent successor, Craig Mackey, taking office at the end of January 2012. Before 2005, Dick attracted little media attention, but became well known"
"is responsible for strategic oversight of the Metropolitan Police, all operational policing decisions remain the responsibility of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. The office lacks the power to appoint or dismiss the commissioner. Stephen Greenhalgh was the first Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. The current Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is Sophie Linden. Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is a functional body of the Greater London Authority responsible for oversight of the Metropolitan Police. It came into being on 16 January 2012 at midnight, replacing the Metropolitan"
"Paul Condon, Baron Condon Paul Leslie Condon, Baron Condon, (born 10 March 1947) is a retired British police officer. He was the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1993 to 2000. Condon read Jurisprudence at St Peter's College, Oxford and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1996. Paul Condon joined the police in 1967. He became Chief Constable of Kent in 1988 and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1993 at the age of 45, the youngest person to do so, stepping down in 2000. His tenure as head of the Metropolitan Police Service was marked by the Stephen Lawrence"
"early 1990s as a sub-divisional commander, a posting that ended in some acrimony. He returned to Lancashire to a further Headquarters support post before being appointed in 1994 as a sub-divisional commander then divisional commander in Preston. He has also served as Assistant Chief Constable in Merseyside Police starting in 1994 until 1999 and Deputy Chief Constable in Lancashire from May 1999 under Chief Constable Pauline Clare. Stephenson supplanted Pauline Clare and was himself appointed as Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary in July 2002 and promoted to deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in February 2005. In September 2008 it"
"had occurred in February 2006. In December 2007, he was promoted to deputy chief constable. From March until July 2010, he was serving as temporary chief constable of the force. In January 2011, he left Kent Police to join the City of London Police as Commissioner. In addition to leading the City's police, he was head of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. In the 2012 New Year Honours, he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal. He retired on 31 December 2015 and was succeeded by the force's Assistant Commissioner, Ian Dyson, QPM. Leppard was appointed Commander of the Order of"
"2008, he was the Chief Constable of Cheshire Constabulary, a post he held since 2002. He had been Assistant Chief Constable at Surrey and had had positions with Hertfordshire and West Midlands forces. Fahy has previously expressed his frustration at red tape which has been creeping into police forces across the United Kingdom. In July 2011, Fahy commanded his officers to use their common sense and criticised police policies which prevents the police from helping victims or protecting the public in certain cases. In July 2011, Fahy was one of the frontrunners to replace Sir Paul Stephenson as the Metropolitan"
"was formed by Robert Peel with the implementation of the Metropolitan Police Act, passed by Parliament in 1829. Peel, with the help of Eugène-François Vidocq, selected the original site on Whitehall Place for the new police headquarters. The first two commissioners, Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, along with various police officers and staff, occupied the building. Previously a private house, 4 Whitehall Place () backed onto a street called Great Scotland Yard. By 1887, the Metropolitan Police headquarters had expanded from 4 Whitehall Place into several neighbouring addresses, including 3, 5, 21 and 22 Whitehall Place; 8 and 9 Great"
"March 2014 into alleged Metropolitan Police corruption in the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The report also commented that there was substantial evidence linking an alleged corrupt police officer with involvement in the murder of Morgan. In July 2014, it was announced that Baroness O'Loan would be taking over chairing the inquiry, on the withdrawal of previous chair Sir Stanley Burnton, and Kate Blackwell QC was appointed as Counsel to the panel. In October 2014 the Vian brothers, Sid Fillery, Jonathan Rees and James Cook launched a £4 million lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police. In February 2017 the high court ruled"
"Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service. The post is currently held by Cressida Dick, who assumed office on 10 April 2017. The Commissioner is regarded as the highest ranking police officer in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that their authority is generally confined to the Metropolitan Police Service's area of operation, the Metropolitan Police District. However, unlike other police forces the Metropolitan Police has certain national responsibilities such as leading counter-terrorism policing and the protection of the Royal Family and senior members of Her"
"During that posting he was closely involved in far-reaching organisational reforms of the Metropolitan Police Service. From 1987 to 1990, he headed the Force Inspectorate. On 1 September 1990, he was promoted to Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. He served as Assistant Commissioner Territorial Operations, with responsibility for operations at all police stations throughout London. In 1993, he was asked by the commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, to head a radical reorganisation of the Metropolitan Police to create a modern managerial structure and philosophy. He retired from the police in April 1995 as the longest serving Metropolitan Police Officer."
"force. Theodore Roosevelt, in one of his final acts as Governor of New York before becoming Vice President of the United States in March 1901, continued reforms he began when he was Police Superintendent by signing legislation that replaced the police commission and office of Police Chief (previously superintendent) with a single Police Commissioner. The current Police Commissioner is James P. O'Neill, who was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio and took office on September 19, 2016. The longest serving Commissioner was Raymond W. Kelly who served for 13 years in two separate appointments (1992–1994, 2002–2013), under Mayors David Dinkins"
"police and turn over its property to the Metropolitans. Wood refused, however, even after the State Supreme Court upheld, in May 1857, the law establishing the commission. Wood called upon the Municipals to support him; when this was put to a vote, 15 police captains and 800 patrolmen under Police Superintendent George Washington Matsell chose to support the mayor. The remaining members, among them Captain George W. Walling, chose to comply with the state law and joined the Metropolitans. While the Metropolitans were setting up their new headquarters on White Street, Mayor Wood quickly filled the Municipal positions left vacant."
"Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia The Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, generally simply referred to as the Chief of Police, is the head of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. The post is currently held by Peter Newsham who assumed in May 2017 after seven months as interim police chief. In 1861, the Metropolitan Police Board unanimously chose one of its members, William Benning Webb, to serve as the first chief of the Metropolitan Police, the formal title at the time being ""Major and Superintendent"". In 1953"
"September 2011 named the Met along with 46 celebrities, politicians, sportsmen, other public figures, and members of the public who may have been victims of media intrusion, granting them all ""core participant"" status in the initial module of the inquiry. Core participants could, through their legal representatives, ask questions of witnesses giving oral evidence. By early July 2011, Metropolitan Police Service commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson was facing questions and accusations from several quarters about potential conflicts of interest arising from his social relationships with News International executives. On 14 July 2011, Neil Wallis was arrested. Wallis was formerly executive editor"
"police corruption, drug trafficking and robbery. During an initial Metropolitan Police inquiry, Jonathan Rees and Sid Fillery were questioned, but both denied involvement in the murder. After an inquiry by Hampshire police in 1988, Jonathan Rees and another man were charged with the murder, but the charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence. The Hampshire inquiry's 1989 report to the Police Complaints Authority stated that ""no evidence whatsoever"" had been found of police involvement in the murder. Sid Fillery retired from the Metropolitan Police on medical grounds and took over Daniel Morgan's position as Jonathan Rees's partner at"
"for News Corporation. Also within two weeks, the two top officials of the Metropolitan Police Service resigned, namely Commissioner Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates. The new Met Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, took the unusual step of asking a team from an outside police force, the Durham constabulary headed by Jon Stoddart, to review the work of Operation Weeting. By the end of the year, sixteen people, mostly editors and journalists who had at one time worked for ""News of the World"", were arrested in conjunction with recently renewed investigations of illegal acquisition of confidential information. These included former editors"
"the latter. In December 2006, it was made public that during Operation Helios the MPS had unlawfully tapped over 3,500 private calls made by Dizaei. The ruling was made by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal after referral by the NBPA. In 2008, Dizaei commenced Employment Tribunal proceedings against Catherine Crawford (the Chief Executive of the Metropolitan Police Authority), Sir Paul Stephenson and others, claiming that they had specifically targeted him for being an outspoken critic of their record on race and for Dizaei supporting Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur in his race discrimination claim against Paul Stephenson and Ian Blair. In March"
"data from across the Metropolitan Police District. In 1995, Commissioner Sir Paul Condon introduced the widest-ranging reorganisation when he increased the number of assistant commissioners to six. The previous eight Areas, each commanded by a deputy assistant commissioner (DAC), were reduced to five, each commanded by an assistant commissioner, designated AC 1 to 5. Each assistant commissioner also had force-wide responsibility for a 'portfolio' (such as crime or traffic), setting force policy and managing related headquarters branches. ACSO remained outside the area system and continued to manage the Specialist Operations units. In 2000, the system changed again, with policing restructured"
"reopen its inquiry into the matter (finding that it had not been ""materially misled"", leading ""The Guardian""'s editor Alan Rusbridger to resign from the PCC) and the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to reopen its inquiry. In light of the new allegations in ""The Guardian"" in July 2009, the Metropolitan Police Service commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson asked his assistant commissioner John Yates to review the original 2006 investigation for new evidence. In one 8-hour meeting, Yates reviewed the investigation and decided not to take any further action. In a public statement later, and in a July 2009, appearance at the"
"Metropolitan Police Act 1829 The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (10 Geo.4, c.44) was an Act of Parliament introduced by Sir Robert Peel. The Act established the Metropolitan Police of London (with the exception of the City), replacing the previously disorganized system of parish constables and watchmen. The Act was the enabling legislation for what is often considered to be the first modern police force, the ""bobbies"" or ""peelers"" (after Peel), which served as the model for modern urban police departments throughout England. Until the 1829 Act, the Statute of Winchester of 1285 was cited as the primary legislation regulating the"
"occupation of 30 Millbank, something which they had not been expecting. Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police's Commissioner, told the press that he was ""embarrassed"" by how police had lost control of the situation, and condemned what he saw as ""thuggish, loutish behaviour by criminals."" Stephenson remarked that ""the one thing I would say is that it must have been an awful time for the people trying to go about their daily business in those buildings. I feel terribly sorry that they have had to go through what must have been quite a traumatic experience… We are determined to make"
"Metropolitan Police as Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Training). In this role he came to public attention as he instituted racial awareness training for police officers in the wake of the Brixton riots, into which he also conducted an internal investigation. On 1 December 1981 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner ""D"" (Personnel and Training). He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in 1982 in recognition of his involvement post-riots in Brixton in 1981, in always difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances, and headed the Met's investigation into the shooting of Steven Waldorf in 1983. In 1984 he moved to become Assistant Commissioner"
"of contention for the party chairmanship. He was confirmed by the Massachusetts Governor's Council and took office on May 1, 1905. In 1906, the three-person police commission was abolished by the Massachusetts General Court in favor of a sole commissioner. Cole's tenure ended when Commissioner Stephen O'Meara took office in June of that year. In 1910 Cole married Grace F. Blanchard. That same year he was promoted to Major in the Massachusetts Militia. On January 26, 1912, Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald dismissed Fire Commissioner Charles Dudley Daly and named Cole as his successor. He took office on February 12,"
"Bob Paulson Robert Wilfred ""Bob"" Paulson, (born 1958) is a former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He previously served as the Deputy Commissioner, Federal Policing from November 2010 to November 2011. He replaced the first civilian Commissioner, William J. S. Elliott, who subsequently worked with INTERPOL. He retired from the RCMP at the end of June 2017. Paulson was born in Lachute, Quebec. He joined the Canadian Forces after high school and served in the ranks for six years. Leaving the Forces in 1984, he spent two years at Simon Fraser University and then joined the RCMP as"
"2013, New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named Bratton as New York City's new Police Commissioner to replace Raymond Kelly after de Blasio's swearing-in on January 1, 2014. ""The New York Times"" reported that at Bratton's swearing-in on January 2, 2014, the new Police Commissioner praised his predecessor Raymond Kelly, but also signaled his intention to strike a more conciliatory tone with ordinary New Yorkers who had become disillusioned with policing in the city: ""We will all work hard to identify why is it that so many in this city do not feel good about this department that has"
"Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis The Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis (SLMPD) is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for serving the City of St. Louis in the U.S. state of Missouri. The department is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). The current Commissioner of Police is Colonel John Hayden Jr., who was named to the position on December 28, 2017. The Metropolitan Police Department is a division of the Public Safety Department - City of St. Louis. the Metropolitan Police Department is the second largest city police agency in Missouri,"