Dee Doocey on Sir Ian Blair’s resignation

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Dee Doocey on Sir Ian Blair’s resignation

By Helen Duffett | Thu 2nd October 2008 - 4:55 pm

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Sir Ian Blair resigned this afternoon as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, with effect from 1st December.

Dee Doocey, Liberal Democrat London Assembly spokesperson on policing (and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority) said:

The Metropolitan Police Service is crying out for strong leadership, and whoever takes over has a mountain to climb. The lack of leadership at the top of the MPS in recent weeks and months has resulted in the top brass fighting among themselves, rather then getting on with their real jobs of policing London.

The Met must now devote all its efforts on keeping the streets of our capital safe rather than vying for power and fighting each other.

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2 Comments

atropos 2nd Oct '08 - 5:42pm

I didn’t know he’d finally gone. Maybe London will now get a Police Force which catches criminals instead of a Police Service which protects them.
Terry Gilbert 2nd Oct '08 - 10:11pm

Interestingly, Blair is not the first Commissioner to be told to go by a Tory – Willie Whitelaw sent someone to tell Sir David McNee to go after Michael Fagin got into the Queen’s bedroom in 1982. McNee told him to get stuffed. But he retired within the year anyway.