| John Stevens, Baron Stevens Of Kirkwhelpington |
Article Index for John Stevens |
Website Links For John |
Information AboutJohn Stevens, Baron Stevens Of Kirkwhelpington |
|
POLICE CAREER He 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). He presided over an external police inquiry into allegations in Northern Ireland of collusion between the British Army , the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Loyalist terrorists in the murders of Irish Nationalist s. Stevens's third report, published on 17 April 2003 , upheld the claim and explicitly said that Collusion leading to the murder of nationalists (and some Unionists wrongly thought to be Catholic or nationalist) had taken place. In the aftermath of his shock report, David Trimble , the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party , called for a parliamentary inquiry into the collusion, while the leaders of the Social Democratic And Labour Party and Sinn Féin called for a full Public Inquiry . AFTER THE POLICE After his retirement as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on 6 April 2005 he was created a Life Peer as Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, of Kirkwhelpington in the County of Northumberland . Lord Stevens is the Executive Chairman of Quest Ltd , a London based Corporate Intelligence, Investigations and Risk Mitigation Company. Among at least four remunerated company directorships held by him are non-executive directorships of the financial services company Invicta Capital and of Mercer Street Consulting . Stevens also writes for the '' News Of The World '' newspaper. On 28 November 2005 he was appointed Chancellor of Northumbria University . He headed a Metropolitan Police inquiry, Operation Paget , into the deaths of Diana, Princess Of Wales and Dodi Fayed , which reported its findings on 14 December 2006 . As a result of the 2006 , it was announced by the Football Association that Lord Stevens' inquiry had been extended by two months to investigate 39 transfers involving eight clubs. On 20 December 2006 , Stevens presented his preliminary report, which found that the level of corruption within English football was not a high as had been anticipated, there were several causes for concernhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6192665.stm. 17 transfer deals were still subject to further scrutiny. |
|
|