Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, usually just Assistant Commissioner (AC), is the third highest rank in London's Metropolitan Police, ranking below Deputy Commissioner and above Deputy Assistant Commissioner. There are usually four officers in the rank. From 1 September 2010 the salary is £181,455, making them the equal fourth highest paid police officers in the United Kingdom, behind the Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, and the Chief Constable of Northern Ireland, and alongside the Chief Constables of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.
Read more about Assistant Commissioner Of Police Of The Metropolis: 19th Century, Lettered Departments, Reorganisation in The 1980s and 1990s, Current Organisation, Footnotes
Famous quotes containing the words police and/or metropolis:
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“If Los Angeles has been called “the capital of crackpots” and “the metropolis of isms,” the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the city’s idiosyncrasies to the newcomer—at least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)