What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2011?
Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal Police Service resigned, namely Commissioner Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates. The new Met Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, took the unusual step of asking a team from an outside police force, the Durham Constabulary headed by Jon Stoddart, to review the work of Operation Weeting. Between 4 July and early September 2011, about ten people, mostly editors and journalists who had at one time worked for "News of the World", were arrested in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information. These included Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Neil Wallis, Stuart Kuttner, Greg Miskiw, James Desborough, Dan Evans, Ross Hall, and "The
History of the Metropolitan Police Service been headed by a Commissioner, rather than a Chief Constable which is the highest rank in police forces outside London. The first Commissioners to hold the post were Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Rowan and Sir Richard Mayne. When Sir Charles Rowan died, leaving Sir Richard Mayne as the surviving Commissioner, Captain William Hay was drafted in to jointly run the force with Mayne. However, because the two Commissioners did not agree on methods of running the force, since 1855 it was decided that only one Commissioner would run the force. Metropolitan Police patrols took to the streets on 29 September 1829,