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UK: Stevens appointed Deputy Commissioner

01 January 1998

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John Stevens, who is at present one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary, has been appointed as the new Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan police. He joined the Met in 1963 and, after serving in the CID, was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of Hampshire police in 1986. He served as Deputy Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire police between 1989-1991 he was chosen to carry out an investigation into allegations of collaboration between an "inner-force" within the RUC and loyalist paramilitaries in northern Ireland (The Stevens Report). In 1995 he became Chief Constable of Northumbria police and headed the NCIS inquiry into alleged corruption in the use of interception of communications in 1996. In 1996 he was appointed one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary. He will take up the new post at the beginning of May when the current Deputy Commissioner, Sir Brian Hayes, retires.

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