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Lord Paddick (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 November 2025

Debate

Police Reform

Contribution

My Lords, I declare my interest as a paid but fiercely independent adviser to the Metropolitan Police. The Statement says that the PCC model has drawn policing more into politics and “had perverse impacts on the recruitment of chief constables”. Are these problems not the result of concentrating the power to hire and fire chief constables in the hands of one party-politically aligned individual? How does moving to elected mayors address this problem?

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