The Home Office has recently announced that policies will be altered to permit foreign-born candidates to take on the role of Chief Constable in the UK's forty-three police services.
Foreign police chiefs OK
Earlier it was suggested that Bill Bratton, former chief of police of the NYPD and the LAPD, might be offered the Chief Constable's position with the Metropolitan London Police. This move was extremely controversial and blocked by Theresa May, the Home Secretary.
Bratton has recently done a career circuit through the realm of private consulting with Altegrity and now closed the loop by returning to the top job with the NYPD. However, there may be other senior police executives in North America (or elsewhere) who might relish the notion of taking the reins for one of the UK's police organizations. Time, as always, will tell...
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