John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
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The Right Honourable The Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington QPM KStJ DL FRSA |
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| Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police | |
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In office 1 January 2000 – 31 December 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Paul Condon |
| Succeeded by | Sir Ian Blair |
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John Arthur Stevens 21 October 1942 |
| Profession | Police officer; head of the Metropolitan Police Service (2000–2005) |
John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, QPM, KStJ, DL, FRSA (born 21 October 1942) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police Service) from 2000 until 2005. From 1991 to 1996, he was Chief Constable of Northumbria Police before being appointed one of HM Inspectors of Constabulary in September 1996. He was then appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Met in 1998 until his promotion to Commissioner in 2000. He was a writer for the News of the World, for £7,000 an article, until his resignation as the hacking scandal progressed.
He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Stevens was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, the University of Leicester where he took an LL.B and the University of Southampton, where he did his MPhil. Before becoming Chief Constable of Northumbria, he served as Assistant Chief Constable of the Hampshire Constabulary (1986–88) and Deputy Chief Constable of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary (1988–91).
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