FORMER Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair has taken his seat in the House of Lords.

John Prescott, Sir Ian Blair, the controversial former police chief, and Floella Benjamin, the children's television presenter, are among the colourful characters named as new members of the House of Lords.

Two race claims out of 148 upheld against Metropolitan police at tribunal.

Good to see Iain Martin having a pop at the tiresomely self-righteous Ian Blair: Sir Ian’s big argument of the moment is that he is opposed to elected police chiefs. The danger, he says, is that policing would become politicized. But it already is highly politicized in this country; it’s just that the electorate does not have a say on how it should be conducted. This means that police ...

Sir Ian Blair was accused of pressurising a senior officer to alter evidence over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes he has claimed in his autobiography.

Sir Ian Blair says he was forced out as Met Police chief because Boris Johnson "wanted to show the power" of London mayor.

Ousted as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner last December Sir Ian Blair who retains his £295000 salary until February next year under the terms of his departure had been hoping for a six figure windfall from publishing his memoirs.

Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4’s Helmand correspondent asked local Police Chief, Colonel Asadullah Shirzard if the police were sufficiently free from corruption to manage the forthcoming elections. The corpulent Colonel declaimed:  “We have eradicated corruption in our police force!” This is a seminal moment. Rudy Giuliani couldn’t do it, Sir Ian Blair failed, though that&#...

It's rare to hear anything at all about Britain's Departmental Permanent Secretaries. Even scandal doesn't usually push their names into the headlines. So Sir David Normington's decision to speak to the BBC - for a programme about Sir Ian Blair's...

Top civil servant reflects on Sir Ian Blair's resignation