John Yates
John Yates is an Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police Service and head of Specialist Operations.[1]
Yates is a member of the Metropolitan Police Management Board and the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Specialist Operations with responsibility for Counter Terrorism, Security and Protection, nationally as well as in London. He is also Chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers - Terrorism & Allied Matters (ACPO - TAM) Business Area. and as such is responsible for co-ordinating national counter terrorism and security policy.[2]
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Education
Yates was educated at Marlborough College and King's College London.[3]
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
Yates worked as Staff Officer to Commissioner Paul Condon during the MacPherson Inquiry into the death of black teenager Stephen Lawrence between 1999 and 2000.[4]
East Dulwich corruption inquiry
As a detective superintendent, Yates headed a 2001 inquiry into police corruption within a crime squad in East Dulwich which led to the imprisonment of six serving detectives.[5]
Special Inquiry Squad
As head of the Special Inquiry Squad, Yates was responsible for a number of high-profiles cases, including the perjury conviction of Jeffrey Archer, the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? fraud case and the investigation of rape allegations against television presenter John Leslie.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Assistant Commissioner John Yates QPM, Specialist Operations, Metropolitan Police, accessed 11 July 2009.
- ↑ Assistant Commissioner John Yates QPM, Specialist Operations, Metropolitan Police, accessed 11 July 2009.
- ↑ Peter Walker, Profile: John Yates, guardian.co.uk, 9 April 2009.
- ↑ Profile:John Yates, BBC News, 9 April 2009.
- ↑ Peter Walker, Profile: John Yates, guardian.co.uk, 9 April 2009.
- ↑ Peter Walker, Profile: John Yates, guardian.co.uk, 9 April 2009.
