The Met is widely held to be addicted to leaking self-helping titbits to the press. It's an issue of particular and galling interest to me as I've yet to be in receipt of even the teeniest whisper about anything at all from Scotland Yard. Toby Harris suspects that, by contrast, the ears of The Times's Sean O'Neill are positively moist from policemen's breath:
His blog is...suggesting that Ian McPherson, the current Chief Constable of Norfolk, is a shoo-in to be appointed as Assistant Commissioner (Territorial Policing) of the Metropolitan Police by a Panel of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) next week. As a member of that Panel, I can state categorically that there is nothing foregone about the process we will be undertaking....Is [O'Neill] articulating what Sir Paul Stephenson wants?
Read the whole thing, fight fans. Don't miss Sean O'Neill's riposte in the comments.
