Paul Condon, Baron Condon
Paul Condon, Baron Condon , DL , FRSA , QPM (born March 10, 1947 ) is a British police officer. He was the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police in London from 1993 to 2000.
life and career
Condon studied law at St. Peter College, Oxford and became an honorary member in 1996. He is a Royal Society of Arts Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute of Management. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1989 for outstanding service and was knighted in 1994.
He joined the police in 1967. In 1988 he was named Chief Constable of Kent and in 1993, Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis . At 45 years of age, he was the youngest to have done it. In 2000 he resigned. His tenure as head of the Metropolitan Police Service was marked by the Stephen Lawrence case, which sparked a great deal of controversy. In 1994 he was ennobled as a Knight Bachelor and in 2001 as Baron Condon , of Langton Green in the County of Kent, made a life peer . Until his retirement in 2017, he was a crossbencher in the House of Lords . Until 2012 he was also vice chairman of the board of G4S , a company trying to take on many police functions in the UK.
Condon is married with three children and four grandchildren. He lives in Tunbridge Wells , Kent .
Honors
- 1989: Queen's Police Medal
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.met.police.uk/history/condon.htm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/stephen_lawrence/276686.stm
- ↑ g4s.com ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Condon, Paul, Baron Condon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British policeman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1947 |