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UK: Drugs inquiry into Met police chief sent to CPS
Ananova
Monday 16 Sep 2002 A police report into drugs and other allegations against controversial police commander Brian Paddick has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. The report, which followed a four-month inquiry by the Deputy Chief Constable of Humberside Police Gordon Clark, was due to be considered by a sub-committee of the Metropolitan Police Authority today. But the committee, which met in private in central London, issued a statement which said that it was adjourning their decision on it until the CPS had decided whether or not to proceed with criminal charges. Commander Paddick, who pioneered the "softly, softly" approach to cannabis use, was moved to a desk job after the investigation was launched into claims by his former partner James Renolleau, which included that he smoked cannabis. The three members of the sub-committee - Elizabeth Howlett, Richard Sumray and Reshard Auladin - spent an hour looking at the report. Commander Paddick has not been suspended, but his situation "remains under review". He was temporarily removed from his post as head of policing in Lambeth, south London, when the investigation began. Mr Clark's inquiry looked at claims that Commander Paddick smoked cannabis and allowed the drug to be kept in his home by Mr Renolleau, who is an ex-male model. It also looked at whether Commander Paddick, 43, breached police guidelines by not telling his superiors that Mr Renolleau was on bail for alleged fraud while they were together.
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