The Minister has puzzled me about the idea that the deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioners of the Metropolitan Police are not chief constables. They are chief constables. You have to be a chief constable to be an assistant commissioner or the deputy commissioner. At least, that is my understanding of the matter, and I am getting various nods from my colleagues. Titles in the Metropolitan Police are different, as the Minister knows. To say that the deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioners are not chief constables when they are the most senior chief constables in the land is an oddity. Would the Minister care to reflect on that?
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Blair of Boughton
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 4 December 2013.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill.
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