Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick
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The Right Honourable The Lord Paddick |
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Brian Paddick, official photograph
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| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Home Affairs | |
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Assumed office 28 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Tim Farron |
| Preceded by | Alistair Carmichael |
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| Born |
Brian Leonard Paddick 24 April 1958 Balham, South London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse(s) |
Mary Stone (m. 1983–88) (divorced) Petter Belsvik (m. 2009) |
| Residence | Vauxhall, London, England |
| Education | BA (The Queen's College, Oxford); MBA (Warwick); Postgraduate Diploma in Policing and Applied Criminology (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) |
| Occupation | Visiting fellow, politician |
| Known for | Being Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London in London mayoral election, 2008, and formerly UK's most senior openly gay police officer. |
Brian Leonard Paddick, Baron Paddick (born 24 April 1958) is a British politician, life peer, and retired police officer. He was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the London mayoral elections of 2008 and 2012. He was, until his retirement in May 2007, Deputy Assistant Commissioner in London's Metropolitan Police Service and the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer.
Paddick joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1976. Rising through the ranks, he was appointed the officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Notting Hill in 1995, then returned to New Scotland Yard, first as Superintendent of the Personnel Department in 1996 and then as Chief Superintendent in 1997. In December 2000 he was appointed Police Commander for the London Borough of Lambeth where he worked until 2002.
In the latter capacity, Paddick attracted controversy by instructing his police officers not to arrest or charge people found with cannabis so that they could focus on crimes that were affecting the quality of life in the borough to a greater extent. In late 2002 the Crown Prosecution Service decided that no charges would be brought against him, and in December 2003 Paddick and the Mail on Sunday settled legal proceedings brought by him, with the newspaper accepting that a story it had published was false (which had alleged he had used cannabis), apologising, and paying damages.
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