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Police ‘will quit’ if Tories create elected bosses

20.11.09
One of Britain’s top policemen clashed with David Cameron over Tory plans for locally elected police chiefs... more

Boris had to sack Blair but he could still play a role

03.11.09
I was relieved when Sir Ian Blair was appointed as Metropolitan Police Commissioner in 2005. He was known as a moderniser, a liberal-minded person in an illiberal organisation... more

Boris Johnson sacked me because he felt threatened, says Sir Ian Blair

02.11.09
When head of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, walked into the Mayor's office last October, he saw a far tougher side to the usually ebullient Boris Johnson... more

Andy Hayman: I deeply regret not challenging Ian Blair on de Menezes

24.06.09
The Met's former anti-terror chief Andy Hayman talks frankly of his fears, frustrations and failings ... more

Civil servant attacks Boris Johnson over ousting of Sir Ian Blair

08.06.09
A senior civil servant at the Home Office has opened a major rift with Mayor Boris Johnson over the resignation of Met police chief Sir Ian Blair... more

Taking pride in our man-bags

29.05.09
David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo have them. Will Young danced around his. Even former Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has been seen out strolling with one... more

Lawrence legacy: the fight against racism

18.02.09
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10 years after Macpherson, the Met is still short of blacks and Asians in senior jobs

18.02.09
The Met has the same number of senior black and ethnic minority officers as it did 10 years ago when it was accused of institutional racism over the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation... more

He’s different – but now Stephenson must really change the Met

29.01.09
London’s policing has been dogged by a lack of leadership – now Sir Paul must tackle the vested interests that let down his force and fail us all ... more

New Met chief: I don't want to be a celebrity

28.01.09
The new head of the Met has insisted he has no intention of becoming a celebrity police officer... more

The best choice for the Met

26.01.09
WHATEVER the result of today's interviews for a new Metropolitan Police Commissioner to succeed Sir Ian Blair, London will get an able, experienced and highly competent police chief... more

Straight talker versus the popular tactician

26.01.09
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Outrage at £1m flat for Sir Ian Blair

26.01.09
The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner has come under attack after it was revealed he had kept a riverside “grace and favour” flat worth nearly £1 million despite quitting his job last month ... more

No women on shortlist to become next Met chief

17.12.08
Four senior police officers – none of them women – have been shortlisted to be the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner... more

Is Sir Hugh Orde the man to restore confidence in the Met?

01.12.08
The Damian Green scandal has once again thrown Scotland Yard into chaos, bringing into question the suitability of Sir Paul Stephenson as front-runner for the top job. Now the focus shifts to a Met veteran with strong security credentials... more

Blair on Blair and the politics of policing

27.11.08
Sir Ian Blair warned today that the ability to provide a first-class police service was threatened by the "breaking down of political and media consensus".... more

Goodbye, Sir Ian Blair – we won’t miss you

27.11.08
The beleaguered Met Commissioner leaves office tomorrow. What we need in his place is a solid, reassuring figure who will talk about crime and get the public back on side... more

Sir Ian, the gravy train and a very public failure

11.11.08
The outgoing Met chief is the latest figure to benefit from absurd pay-offs in the state sector. It is the taxpayer who carries the cost... more

Jacqui Smith's revenge

11.11.08
She was incandescent when Mayor Boris forced out Met Chief Sir Ian Blair. But, as we reveal today, the Home Secretary has won the first round in the battle to appoint his successor... more

Fury at Sir Ian Blair’s £1m pot of gold

10.11.08
Sir Ian Blair is to get a pay-off worth £1million, it was revealed... more

Malthouse: I pray every day there is not another teen killing

03.11.08
Boris’s deputy mayor for policing, Kit Malthouse, explains the thinking behind the Mayor’s new knife crime initiative – and who he believes is the best officer to succeed Sir Ian Blair... more

Also in the running for top police job

17.10.08
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Banking excess may save us from the police state

16.10.08
The government climbdown over 42 days augurs well for the future - and the RBS and HBOS bail-out may even swallow the funds for ID cards and other horrors on the Home Office wish-list... more

A tough Question Time for Jacqui Smith

03.10.08
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What the papers say...

03.10.08
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Yard pays out £37m in bonuses to its officers

01.08.08
Scotland Yard paid out nearly £37million in bonuses last year, it has been revealed... more

Comment: Knife crime and the courts

31.07.08
Yesterday, Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, expressed his frustration that when the police arrest people who carry knives in public, so few of them are sent to prison by the courts... more

Why the Met must come clean about its cock-ups

29.07.08
I like the Met - and I don't mean that with a trace of sarcasm. On the whole it does a good job of policing a vast, tough, often anarchic city. It does it - by and large - without firearms, and it does it - by and large - with the consent of the citizens. This is why I take its cock-ups so very seriously... more

Rape claims soar after Yard appeal

04.07.08
The number of rapes reported in London has risen by almost half in three months after a drive by police to urge more women to report attacks... more

Met Chief in Kate Moss drugs storm

06.06.08
A call by Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair for celebrities who are filmed apparently taking drugs to be put on trial prompted an angry response from Britain's chief prosecutor... more

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