Too Quick on the draw

Nicholas

Other pre-requisites might be keeping a low profile and not succumbing to emotive public outbursts about investigations in progress.

If he is disappointed with the country he could always join the thousands of others leaving New Labour's socialist paradise. The Tory machinery and their press friends have very little to do with what it has become after nearly 12 years of Blair, Brown & Co. Perhaps he could find a job training Iraqi or Afghani police about confidentiality and conflicts of interest issues?

Patrick

Thank God our Police service is not political otherwise Labour leaning Officers would reach the giddy heights of Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Metropolitan Police and thus the Nations counter-terrorism branch.

He is no doubt an Honours Graduate of the Sir Iain Blair School of Political Partiality.

Tiberius

Beyond parody.

If he wants to change the country he lives in, tell him to frame Brown for ruining the social and economic fabric.

But, just a minute...

kinglear

.. and people think the MET isn't politicised??

Verity

That's what we need in the counter-terrorism business: a steady hand on the tiller.

Trumpeter Lanfried

He didn't just retract the allegation. He explained that he had made his comments "as I was in the act of having to move my family out of our home to a place of safety following the article in today's Mail on Sunday."

From this I infer that the officer in charge of the Met's counter-terrorism branch is off his rocker.

Bob

"It is an attempt to undermine an investigation which is legitimate. The Tory machinery and their press friends are mobilised against this investigation in a wholly corrupt way, and I feel very disappointed in the country I am living in."

Bob Quick (no relation) is a very funny man. Responsible for running roughshod over the laws of this country, happy to be a policeman in a force that shoots people in the head on suspicion and worst of all, has been a leading light in turning a reasonably respected Police Force into a political tool renamed in NuLan Nuspeak the Police Service where plod now spends his time handing out flip flops and harrassing newsagents for putting jokes in their ads.

I have no respect for any of them, if I saw one in trouble I doubt I would help these days.

Sandy Jamiesomn

David Cameron (with Boris Johnson's support)should make it clear that if the Home Secretary appoints Bob Quick as Commissioner, on being elected,he will dismiss Quick without compensation.

Secondly, if Damien Green is charged and it goes to trial, David Cameron should ask any Conservative supporter, indeed any elector who finds themself on the Jury to find Damien Green "not guilty" on what is nothing but a political show trial. He should also make it clear to the CPS that any such prosecution will lead to dismissals

Travis Bickle

And they wanted to trust people like him with 42 days......

Mark Pasola

Quick should obviously withdraw from the Damian Green inquiry with immediate effect, having demonstrated such overt prejudice. We couldn't possibly expect objectivity after this.

His poor judgement is arguably also a resigning matter. We expect our senior policemen to detach family matters and personal feelings from their professional life and to know when to keep their mouths shut.

Faceless Bureaucrat

The man is clearly hopelessly out of his depth - and this is a senior Officer overseeing the anti-terrorism agenda at The Met? - I feel safer already...

FB

kinglear

... and surprise surprise the BBC news online does NOT feature the retraction. Sigh. Give us back the good old days when it was so impartial it was painful in its contortions.

Andreson

This has all the hallmarks of the David Kelly affair.

Tories have to be very careful they are not pushing a good man over the edge.

Chuck Unsworth

Gives a whole new meaning to 'a quick response' don't it?

Sometimes these guys are their own worst enemies.

Richard

Scary isn't it?

Graeme Archer

Sack him. The Met leadership is beyond a joke.

David Boothroyd

If people are retracting false allegations, how about Dominic Grieve retracting his false allegation that Jacqui Smith knew that Damian Green was going to be arrested?

wilkes

The police worry about getting their facts right? You'll be expecting them to obtain evidence next!

I think that most of us would feel far more disappointed in our country if the likes of Bob Quick were given any more power over our lives.

Is there not a small British dependency somewhere remote to which he could be dispatched to see out his career?

Jack Ladd

Weird or what? The more we get to know about our senior police officers the stranger they become. Are they ALL like this??

Notsogullible

Good to know that an independent, Bavid Boothroyd is party to the facts about what Jaqui Smith actually knew. Is David really the prolific letter writer Richard Timney. Could he be a serial poster?/

strapworld

But his statement shows political bias against the Tories.

The IPCC MUST investigate both of these allegations. A business from his home address and his political bias. I believe this is most definately a resignation matter.

Any junior officer showing such political bias would be suspended and thrown out.

Quite disgraceful.

TGF UKIP

There may be all sorts of trivial crap on the Today Programme tomorrow but you can bet your bottom dollar there won't be a word about this.

Bernard from Horsham

Kinglear. Read the BBC story again. Quick does retract part of it and the BBC does mention it.... hidden in the middle of the text (surprise surprise)

JohnAnt

It's incredible that the man was prepared to set his own security at risk in this way. The website is wide open to all comers.
And then he blames the..Tory Party?! for the security lapse. Is he sane?

Pat

Lets see- Mrs Quick runs a car hire firm from home and advertises the address. A paper publicises the fact, hence bringing attention to the car hire adverts. The genius of the yard deduces that it is the paper responsible for publishing his address (although his wife is the one that did so)and further that said paper is acting on the instruction of a political party. He then moves home apparantly afraid for his and his childrens lives. Presumably he has a better idea than most of the value of police protection. Will the business now be run from a different address? Or will his wife be left at risk every time she goes to work?
Was it the Labour party that initiated the report, finally overcome with embarasment?

Verity

Wilkes: "Is there not a small British dependency somewhere remote to which he could be dispatched to see out his career?"

What an outrageous thing to wish on a small British dependency!

Trumpeter - on target, as always.

How about Gordon Brown retracting the presumed allegation that Jaqui Smith has the mental stature to be a lollipop lady?

Elected police chiefs. Elected police chiefs. Elected police chiefs.

No more buggering about.

Once elected police chiefs are in place, nits like this individual will not rise in rank above sergeant. If that. (And I mean no offence to sergeants by this, as most of are honest, dedicated to crime control, intelligent and capable of rising through merit.)

But this individual is simply bizarre and illustrates horrendously the louche Labour attitude to terrorism. Quick was on the party list and either his circumstances were not investigated ... or they were.

Equally damning.

EC

Ha! So the real victim of the Damian Green affair has been the police!

PR means never having to say your sorry!

Nicholas

The BBC were reporting this morning (Monday) that although Quick had retracted his accusation of corruption against the Tories he was refusing to retract his other accusations of "Tory machinery mobilising the press" etc.

How ironic that after 11+ years of the full force of New Labour machinery mobilising the press one of New Labour's private policemen should come out of the closet and blurt out in petulant emotion what we already know - that our supposedly impartial civil service institutions are riddled with communist, New Labour and Common Purpose stooges. All sides of the same chip (on the shoulder). After 60 years Hitler and Stalin are finally reconciled in a movement ten times more invidious and destructive than either of them.

It explains much of the transformation of Britain in the last decade. Break it all so it doesn't work any more and then replace it with something authoritarian, self-serving and sinister. If you are on the New Labour gravy train you have nothing to worry about.

Reichsfuhrer Straw has also begun his assault on political satire from The Dark Tower of his Ministry of Injustice with his proposed green paper on the internet and defamation, supposedly aimed at blogs. Read the small print of this one very carefully and expect to see the broadest interpretation of "defamation" and all sorts of other controls and quangos to "police" freedom of speech on the internet in the interests of New Labour but no doubt dressed up as protecting us all and especially the children.

JONNY

'how about Dominic Grieve retracting his false allegation that Jacqui Smith knew that Damian Green was going to be arrested?'
False was it David Boothroyd? Suppose that settles that then.

liz Brown

This story had almost "died" in the meeja and Quick revives it - I detect that hand of Mandelbum again.........
David Boothroyd - Dominic Grieve said that it was "extraordinary that Smith didn't know - " this is not the same as saying he said that she did - I think you need a holiday

Frank P

Quick is a prick and he makes me sick. He's obviously been on one of those PR courses for which Sir Ian Blair's mate was paid £3 million quid to improve the image of the Met. It seems to have been about as effective as the money spent on psychological profilers in investigating serial rape and murder cases.