Sir Hugh named new Acpo president

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He beat British Transport Police chief constable Ian Johnston and Cambridgeshire police chief Julie Spence in a ballot of senior officers across Britain to replace outgoing president Sir Ken Jones.

Giving his reaction at police headquarters in Belfast, Sir Hugh said while he was looking forward to the new challenge at Acpo, he had mixed feelings about leaving the PSNI after nearly seven years.

"There's never a good time to go and frankly I've got mixed emotions about going. This is a great organisation to lead and it's done outstandingly well, but I think the time has come for fresh eyes to look at things differently and will say we need to move in a slightly different direction," he said.

Sir Hugh said he did not expect to take up his new role before September and reassured colleagues that he would not leave before a successor had been identified.

It has emerged that no officers within the PSNI are currently eligible to be considered as his replacement and Sir Hugh said he would like to see chief constables of other services across the UK applying for the position.

Sir Hugh said he had no specific regrets about how he did the job in Northern Ireland. "It's been a rough and challenging ride, that's what you would expect at this end at this level of policing. But I think overall as you step back and look at what's been achieved by this organisation, it's created the conditions that have allowed the politics to move on."

Earlier this year the 50-year-old, from Haslemere, Surrey, lost out to Sir Paul Stephenson in the race to succeed Sir Ian Blair as Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

He has been credited with steering the organisation through a turbulent phase after it was established in 2001 to replace the old Royal Ulster Constabulary but will leave the force struggling with resurgent dissident republican violence that saw one of his officers and two British soldiers murdered last month.

Acpo is a strategic body responsible for directing policing across Britain alongside the Government and Association of Police Authorities.