BARDZO LIBERALNY LIBERAL:
Name: Brian Leonard Paddick
Born: April 24, 1958 in Balham, South London
Age: 49
Family: formerly married to Mary Stone. Twin brother
Educated: Bec School, Tooting Bec; Sutton Manor High School; Queen's College, Oxford; Warwick University; Cambridge University (postgraduate diploma in criminology)
Police career: Constable, Metropolitan Police, 1976. Sergeant on the front line during the 1981 Brixton riot; responsible for policing the Notting Hill Carnival. Promoted to commander in December 2000; head of policing in Brixton. Left Metropolitan police seven months ago.
Hobbies: the gym and writing his memoirs, to be published next year Profile
Friends: the singer George Michael, the shoe designer Patrick Cox, Elton John, David Furnish
• he is against ID cards and the Government's plan to extend detention without trial for terrorist suspects.
• he is against bendy buses in the city centre and thinks delivery drivers should be exempt from the congestion charge
• with 30 years of frontline policing experience he knows how to make Londoners feel safe
• people should were prosecuted for dealing crack cocaine but not for smoking
• Police is a macho, male-dominated, anti-intellectual organisation; there are still problems where police officers wrongly stereotype black people as criminals...
• Mr Paddick is in a long-term relationship now but he said that he struggled for years to come to terms with the idea of being gay
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