Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear

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Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear

Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear (born September 20, 1937 in the United Kingdom ) is a former British police officer. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal and was named Life Peer on May 2, 2006 .

Life

Dear grew up as the son of Cecil William Dear and Violet Mackney and attended Fletton Grammar School in Huntingdonshire . As a cadet he started with the Peterborough Combined Police. In 1956 he was appointed constable . In 1965 he attended University College London to study law on a scholarship . In 1968 he graduated and was "Divisional Commander" in Cambridge and then Deputy Chief Constable (Operations) of the Nottinghamshire Combined Constabulary. From 1975 to 1977 he worked at Bramshill Police College as Director of Command Training. In 1979 he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct for arresting an armed man who had barricaded himself in a house with his son as a hostage.

In 1980 he was transferred to the Metropolitan Police as "Deputy Assistant Commissioner" . There he became known to the general public because, after the uprising in Brixton in 1981 , he trained police officers to observe ethnic characteristics. He also led an internal investigation. On December 1, 1981, he was promoted to "Assistant Commissioner" D "" (Personnel and Training). In 1982 he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM). He led the 1983 investigation into a shootout in which Steven Waldorf , a cutting technician, was mistaken for a felon and seriously wounded by the police. In 1984 he became Assistant Commissioner "A" (Operations and Administration). In 1985 he became " Chief constable " of the West Midlands Police .

There he was again entrusted with internal investigations after a boy was shot by the police. He also took over the investigation into the Handsworth uprising . He initiated major changes within the police station. In 1989 he took on another major case, the investigation into the Hillsborough disaster . On April 1, 1990, he was transferred to the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary . New Years 1997, shortly before retirement, he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor .

On May 2, 2006, he was as Baron Dear , of Willersey in the County of Gloucestershire , for Life Peer appointed. Today he takes an active role in the House of Lords and is involved as a crossbencher in matters of internal security, in the fight against crime, but also in rural matters. One of his greatest achievements in the House of Lords was the prevention of a law that would have extended the length of pre-trial detention without charge for suspected terrorists from 24 to 42 days. In June 2013 Lord Dear tried in vain to prevent the law extending marriage to same-sex couples by filing an application for rejection.

He is Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire and Honorary Fellow of Gray's Inn , University College London and Birmingham City University .

Dear married Judith Stocker in 1958. With her he has two daughters and a son. After the death of his wife in 1996, he remarried in 1998.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47951, HMSO, London, September 10, 1979, p. 11481 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
  2. ^ "Yard to study charge of wanton damage in Brixton," The Times , July 17, 1981
  3. ^ "Police chiefs back call by Scarman on training," The Times , January 8, 1982
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 48818, HMSO, London, December 10, 1980, p. 15717 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
  5. ↑ "Provincial policemen join Yard's top ranks", The Times , 18 August 1984
  6. ^ "Latest appointments," The Times , February 27, 1985
  7. ^ "Yard man appointed new RUC chief constable," The Times , February 24, 1989
  8. ↑ London Gazette . No. 52086, HMSO, London, March 26, 1990, p. 6968 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
  9. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 54625, HMSO, London, December 30, 1996, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 58204, HMSO, London, June 21, 2006, p. 8459 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Geoffrey, Baron Dear
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British senior police officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom