John Stevens
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John Stevens (born October 1942), Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, is a Crossbench member of the House of Lords.[1]
Background
Stevens was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Leicester and Southampton Universities.[2]
Stevens joined the Metropolitan Police in 1963. He subsequently served as Assistant Chief Constable, Hampshire Constabulary, Deputy Chief Constable, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Chief Constable, Northumbria Police. He served as HM Inspector of Constabulary before rejoining the Metropolitan Police as Deputy Commissioner in 1998. He succeeded Sir Paul Condon as Commissioner in 1998. He was made a peer in 2005.[2]
Directorships and interests
Directorships
- Non-executive Chairman, Mercer Street Consulting Ltd[3]
- Non-executive Director, Travelex (money exchange)[3]
- Non-executive Chairman, Monitor Quest Limited (risk mitigation)[3] Stevens was appointed a director of Quest Global in November 2005. [4]
- Non-executive Chairman, Protector Group (security services)[3]
- Executive Chairman, Axiom International Ltd (forensic science and police training courses)[3]
- Non-executive Director, LGC Limited (diagnostic services)[3]
Remunerated employment
- Stevens Consultancy[3]
- Contracted to JLA to give speeches on leadership, management and policing[3]
- Member, UN Commission for Global Road Safety (funded by World Bank)[3]
- Chairman, Buddi Ltd (GPS personal tracking device and tagging company)[3]
Non-financial interests
- Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister on International Security[3]
- Chairman, Border Security Advisory Committee (set up by David Cameron MP for Conservative Party) Since 1 January 2010 leading Stevens 3 Enquiry and examining certain cases investigated by Historical Enquiries Team, Northern Ireland[3]
- Chairman, Independent Commission on the Future of Policing [3]
Axiom International and Libyan police training
Companies House records Lord Stevens as a director of Axiom International Limited (07171834, now TAG International Development Ltd), a CSSF contractor, from 9 April 2010.[5] In March 2011, as the Libyan uprising began, the Mail on Sunday reported that Stevens "stands to profit" from a deal worth an estimated £4m with the University of Huddersfield to train more than 100 Libyan police officers in forensic science. It said the arrangement "enraged Libyan human rights activists". Axiom told the paper that it subcontracted consultancy and training "as necessary" and that the course concerned "the training of forensic scientists on an academic science Masters degree course". The university said it was "working closely with the FCO".[6] In 2019 the university announced a second, larger programme with Axiom, "chaired by former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens", for 333 Libyans to take 18-month master's courses in forensic science and 30 in security science.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, www.parliament.uk, accessed 7 July 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Stevens, Not for the Faint-Hearted, Phoenix, 2006, p.ii.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington www.parliament.co.uk, accessed 8 July 2013
- ↑ Quest Global Limited, Companies in the UK
- ↑ Companies House, John Arthur STEVENS: personal appointments Companies House, accessed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Robert Verkaik, Mail on Sunday, Ex-Met chief profits from £4million deal to train Libyan police... in Huddersfield Mail on Sunday, 6 March 2011.
- ↑ University of Huddersfield, Uni wins second major training contract with Libya University of Huddersfield, September 2019.