Former Brit police IT boss cuffed over bribery allegations The recent head of IT services for Hampshire and Thames Valley police in the UK has been arrested on suspicion of bribery. After early morning raids on properties in Hampshire and Middlesex, Brian Chant, 57, who lives with his parents at the property in Andover, was arrested by officers from the City of London Police. The …
I thought you guys had Liz & Phil for that sort of thing?
Errm, Brenda & Keith shirley? But they tend to be too tied up with Lizard People meetings to get hands on with the PM like that. Anyway I'm sure that the cabinet office already have a "provider of personal services" on retainer for issuing nanny style tellings off to the cabinet members that like that sort of thing
I'm puzzled - maybe I'm a bit older, but advertising your clearance was in the IRA days equivalent to painting a target on your back and I'm not sure it's even allowed.
By the way, SC already gives access to Top Secret, DV (developed vetting) is for what lies beyond so my trust in this chap would have been diminished by this BS alone.
Some basics can be found on the UK government website.
SC permits unsupervised access to SECRET, and occasional, supervised access to TS.
DV permits frequent, unsupervised access to TS.
So what he said was correct and not BS - it just omitted some of the detail.
But I agree with your puzzlement about him advertising his clearance.
Whether he is guilty or innocent it seems to me that he thinks name/clearance-dropping automatically makes him untouchable (How dare you arrest me. DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?).
I also don't see how his protestations that the charges are prior to working with the police have any bearing on the matter either. If he did take a bribe he is still guilty of taking a bribe. If he didn't and it turns out to be malicious and baseless accusations I do hope they charge whoever was behind it. It is much too easy to point the finger of blame when you know there will be no negative outcomes even if your lying through your teeth.
"Whether he is guilty or innocent it seems to me that he thinks name/clearance-dropping automatically makes him untouchable (How dare you arrest me. DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?)."
That doesn't appear to be what's happening here - that's just the stuff El Reg pulled from his LinkedIn profile.
You are of course correct. I read
"I work at quite a senior level and reported to a senior chief constable and had regular meetings with them,”"
and missed that the other was pulled from his linkedin profile. 2+2=5 and all that.
I'm actually shocked. I always thought Cheif Constables got involved in anything only if National TV was going to be present, talking to IT just doesn't cut the mustard!
The West Mercia region is starved of National TV recognition and so I would like to put forward our IT director/manager for some crime so that our Chief constable can gain some valuable recognition (outside of his own home). I hear he has trained intensively to give out the 'Sincere' look, it would be a shame to waste it
"“I had a good relationship with the police, I was working there from October 2014 until about three weeks ago. They were happy with what I was doing, I work at quite a senior level and reported to a senior chief constable and had regular meetings with them,” Chant told the Echo.
Considering how often we see news stories of chief constables being suspended and investigated, I'm not entirely convinced that his explanation above is a particularly ringing endorsement of anything. That's not to say that the chief constable in question is anything other than a paragon of virtue, but the track record of certain individual chief constables and ACPO Ltd as a whole has been less then stellar in some instances.
"the track record of certain individual chief constables and ACPO Ltd as a whole has been less then stellar in some instances."
Only some?
ACPO has done everything it possibly could to avoid being held publicly accountable and auditable. That kind of behaviour is not what you shoudl expect from a police SERVICE(*)
(*) No, not a force. A police force implies policing by authoritarian decree rather than by consent and whilst some police might believe it should be that way, it's not the way UK policing is supposed to be run.
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