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He's carried on opening things I started. He's carried on doing his Daily Telegraph job. And he took the equivalent of three months off last year to write a book about Dick Whittington and Florence Nightingale. I don't know why he's standing again. A: I...
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The Commissioner was out on patrol to publicise the setting up of the UK's first Police and Crime Commissioner.The old, 23-member Metropolitan Police Authority (part-elected, part-independent) has been replaced by one individual, the Mayor Boris...
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Eddie mentioned to our delegate that there was pro-IRA chanting from one specific section of the stadium
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There is little appetite in the coalition for talking about race. Some right-wing commentators even wonder what all the Lawrence fuss was about. It was about declaring that racism springs from not just thuggery, but the denial of equal opportunity and...
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"If they have confidence in each other, it's not going to be a problem. If not, there will be fireworks." Since winning election in 2008, the Conservatives in London have showed they will exert their power over the police. One of their first acts was...
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"Taxpayers expect the Met to use taxpayers' money to fight crime and catch crooks, not to waste it on landscaping and art," she said. An artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of former Met commissioner Ian Blair to hang in New Scotland Yard at a...
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Eddie has mentioned that there was pro-IRA chanting but we need to find out more about when it happened and what exactly went on
– Ian Blair SOURCE: Times of India -
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Dr Peter Saunders is the Campaign Director of anti-euthanasia group Care Not Killing On Thursday, Lord Falconer will launch his Commission on Assisted Dying. The Commission, which includes several well known figures including the controversial former hea
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“Had the police done their job properly, I would have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son rather than fighting to get his killers to court,” Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s mother, told reporters Tuesday. The case had an “absolutely enormous” impact...
About Ian Blair
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Sir Ian Warwick Blair, QPM MA (born 19 March 1953) was a senior British Police Officer who previously held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008. Before his resignation he was the highest ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service. Blair was responsible for the policing of Greater London, with the... Full Article
