Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

Peter Michael Imbert, Baron Imbert Kt CVO QPM (born April 27, 1933 - † November 13, 2017 ) was a British police officer and politician , who was last commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service between 1987 and 1993 and has been a life peer member of the House since 1999 of Lords was.

Life

After attending Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone , Imbert joined the police force of the Metropolitan Police Service in 1953, where he rose to the position of Detective Chief Superintendent until 1976. After he was first assistant and then deputy chief of police of Surrey , succeeding before 1979-1985 David Holdsworth Chief ( Chief Constable ) was the police of Thames Valley. In 1980 he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for his services. In 1985, Colin Smith succeeded him as Thames Valley Police Commissioner. During this time he was also a member of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) board of directors between 1980 and 1987 .

After he was subsequently deputy commissioner for two years, Imbert succeeded Kenneth Newman as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and thus as Police Commissioner of Greater London on January 1, 1987 . After six years in this function, Imbert, who was ennobled as a Knight Bachelor in 1988 and henceforth the suffix "Sir", retired on December 31, 1992 and was replaced by Paul Condon , who was previously chief of the Kent Police Department .

After retiring from active police service, Imbert was a member of the Advisory Committee on Criminal Law from 1992 to 1993 and a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for the Royal Parks in London from 1993 to 2000 and was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Capital Eye Ltd. from 1994 to 2008. He was also a member of the Royal Automobile Club's Public Policy Committee from 1993 to 2000.

He was also Deputy Lieutenant from 1994 to 1998 and then from 1998 to 2008 as the successor to Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and from 1998 to 2000 advisor to CDR International.

A letters patent dated February 10, 1999 raised Imbert, who also became Justice of the Peace of Greater London in 1998 , as Baron Imbert , of New Romney in the County of Kent, Life Peer. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the Crossbencher faction .

From 2008 Lord Imbert was Strategy Advisor to Inkerman Group Ltd and was also named Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2008 . In May 2008 he was followed by David William Brewer as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 10, 2012)
• Mr Peter Imbert at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 10, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 10, 2012)