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19th July 2011, 07:48
FYI:
Britain's Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner John Yates has resigned a day after Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson quit over the phone-hacking scandal.
Yates, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer, became the second high-profile Scotland Yard officer to step down over the scandal, which has engulfed the Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police and Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
"Assistant commissioner John Yates has this afternoon indicated his intention to resign to the chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA). This has been accepted. AC Yates will make a statement later this afternoon," Scotland Yard said in a statement.
Yates decided to quit after the MPA professional standards cases subcommittee held a meeting to review a raft of complaints against him.
He had been responsible for reviewing the evidence related to the phone hacking issue in 2009.
The UK's counter-terrorism chief wrote to London Mayor Boris Johnson on Monday to express "great regret" for previously reassuring him that the initial inquiry into phone hacking had been "thorough."
He had insisted that he intended to continue in his job, and that “this was not a resignation matter."
Yates had described as unfair calls for him to resign for what News of the World has done.
However, the MPA disciplinary committee announced that it had decided to suspend Yates pending an inquiry into allegations following the phone-hacking scandal.
Johnson welcomed Yates and Stephenson's resignations as "regrettable but right."
"Whatever mistakes have been made at any level in the police service, now is the time to clear them up," he said.
Cressida Dick would replace Yates in the interim, Johnson said.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/189658.html
Britain's Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner John Yates has resigned a day after Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson quit over the phone-hacking scandal.
Yates, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer, became the second high-profile Scotland Yard officer to step down over the scandal, which has engulfed the Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police and Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
"Assistant commissioner John Yates has this afternoon indicated his intention to resign to the chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA). This has been accepted. AC Yates will make a statement later this afternoon," Scotland Yard said in a statement.
Yates decided to quit after the MPA professional standards cases subcommittee held a meeting to review a raft of complaints against him.
He had been responsible for reviewing the evidence related to the phone hacking issue in 2009.
The UK's counter-terrorism chief wrote to London Mayor Boris Johnson on Monday to express "great regret" for previously reassuring him that the initial inquiry into phone hacking had been "thorough."
He had insisted that he intended to continue in his job, and that “this was not a resignation matter."
Yates had described as unfair calls for him to resign for what News of the World has done.
However, the MPA disciplinary committee announced that it had decided to suspend Yates pending an inquiry into allegations following the phone-hacking scandal.
Johnson welcomed Yates and Stephenson's resignations as "regrettable but right."
"Whatever mistakes have been made at any level in the police service, now is the time to clear them up," he said.
Cressida Dick would replace Yates in the interim, Johnson said.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/189658.html