Did he jump or was he pushed, that is the question that the media are asking this morning after the resignation of Met Police Chief, Sir Ian Blair. It is no secret that the new Mayor of London Boris Johnson did not like Sir Ian. A lot of the media have come to the conclusion that after recent events in the Met Police that in reality Boris Johnson effectively sacked the Police Chief a move that he of course denies.
But he has come under pressure to resign after news that the Police authority is being sued by a number of high ranking offices on the grounds of race discrimination. However, whatever the findings of these tribunal one thing must be made clear that since he took over the office some three and half years ago, he has increased the number of officers on the beat and crime has fallen, which I believe is what he was employed to do.
There will always be people with grievances and incidents like the Menezes case did not help the situation, but it is unfortunate that he has resigned or was he sacked. It seems a clash of personalities to me, Johnson didn’t like and said as much when he was campaigning for the position of mayor, so the writing was on the wall even then.
