01 April 2021
Cornwall Live, 26 March 2021.
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"The Metropolitan Police commissioner who oversaw the controversial Operation Midland VIP sex abuse inquiry has been given a security role protecting world leaders in Cornwall during the G7 Summit.
Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe, 63, who led the Met during Operation Midland and retired in 2017, has been appointed by Devon and Cornwall Police to advise on security for the summit in June, The Times has reported.
The news comes after Cornwall’s police commander denied rumours that the Metropolitan Police were co-ordinating the security operation.
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Details of Hogan-Howe’s sensitive role were not announced. They were revealed in the register of members’ interests for the House of Lords. The job is unpaid but includes expenses, reports The Times.
Cornwall’s top policeman Chief Superintendent Jim Pearce stressed at a public Facebook Live meeting last night that Devon and Cornwall Police would be co-ordinating the whole police operation during the G7 and not the Met, as he’d heard mentioned.
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Lord Hogan-Howe, who apologised over Operation Midland, has since been given a peerage and was appointed by Home Secretary Priti Patel to carry out an investigation into the Home Office’s accidental deletion of hundreds of thousands of police records.
The Times states that he is also being paid £15,000 a year for at least 15 to 20 days of work at the Cabinet Office, advising on the pandemic and the Brexit transition."
Source: Cornwall Live, 26 March 2021
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