>(London)Â The highest ranking out gay police officer in the world is reportedly ready to leave his job as Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police.
>Brian Paddick has confirmed he will leave the force in which he has served for more than 30 years at the end of the month. He said he wants to begin writing a book on his career and to do public speaking.
>Paddick had become disenchanted with the way the force was being run following a disagreement with the way Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair had handled the shooting of an innocent man police had mistaken for a terror suspect at in 2005.Â
>Paddick told a commission investigating the shooting that Blair’s own private officer believed, just hours after the shooting the wrong man had been killed. Still, Blair had maintained the man was a terrorist.
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