The Mail on Sunday has been delving a little into the business dealings of the controversial Assistant Commissioner Bob Quickk, now in charge of the Metropolitan Police Service Counter Terrorism Command, formerly the Chief Constable of Surrey. The original Mail on Sunday scoop: Security scare over wedding car hire firm run from top terror police chief's home By Martin Delgado Last updated at ...

Bob Quick took on the role of Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer in March, after three and a half years as chief constable of Surrey police. As an experienced detective officer his experience includes leadership of high profile anti-corruption operations and the investigation of racially motivated murders. Quick, 49, began his police career in 1978, serving in Lambeth with the Me...

Lack of "personal responsibility" was at the heart of the Shannon Matthews case, a senior police officer has said. West Yorkshire Chief Constable Norman Bettison told BBC One's Panorama programme that the nine-year-old's mother, Karen Matthews, had lived her life "without the sense of having to answer for the consequences of her actions". He said that in his experience Shannon's fam...

Indeed, Karen Matthews is "not normally socialised", and the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire puts it. She has not been "normally socialised" by the employment, often in "normally socialised" industries, of the only father of her children, her lawful wedded husband, part of the network that, together with her own, ensured in her community that pretty much (if pretty much) everyone was "normally s...

THE assistant chief constable of Strathclyde Police is among three new members appointed to the Risk Management Authority last week.

If you want to understand why we no longer give coppers the benefit of the doubt, read this piece by Andy Hayman, a former chief constable. The rest of the country is fuming about l'affaire Green, and in particular about the abominable way that the Metropolitan Police behaved, deploying twenty anti-terrorism officers against a middle-aged Tory MP, his amiable wife and one of their teenage dau...

Funny how they all seem to be senior policemen, eh? Chief Constable Ken Jones, the President of ACPO, who today issued a statement which will have been music to the Home Secretary's ears. He writes that: ACPO has shared the concerns of the Permanent Secretary (of the Home Office) regarding leaks from his department. The Metropolitan Police Service was properly asked to assist... The independence o...

Ferrets in a sack again: In a statement this morning, Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Paul Stephenson said that his old drinking buddy and fellow member of ACPO, Ian Johnston, Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, would lead the whitewash investigation. "I am shitting myself about having sucked Jacqui's clit in public properly concerned about the issues being raised w...

Jackboot Smith has "welcomed" the decision of the Met to call in another chief constable to review the handling of the Damian Green case. The Met are also to consult the DPP about the next steps. After yesterday's news conference on behalf of Chris Galley, there is no prospect that the CPS will let the Met charge Damian Green even if they still want to. The chances of a conviction would be va...

The Met appears to be in headlong retreat this morning. The acting commissioner has just appointed a chief constable to carry out an urgent review of the handling of the arrest of Damian Green and the Home Office mole. The question it needs to answer is how an everyday Whitehall drama has been turned into a major constitutional crisis. As I reported the other day, the police took the view that the...