{"id":2970,"date":"2008-01-14T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/14\/university-honour-for-asian-police-chief\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:28:16","slug":"university-honour-for-asian-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/14\/university-honour-for-asian-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"University honour for Asian police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>ASIAN police chief Tarique Ghaffur, CBE is to be honoured by the University of Leicester.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Ghaffur, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and a former Superintendent of the Leicestershire Constabulary, will be honoured at the University\u2019s Jubilee Degree Congregations on 25 January.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Ghaffur has had a distinguished career within the police force. In 1989 he became Superintendent and transferred to Leicestershire Constabulary from Greater Manchester Police. During this period he took part in a three-month FBI exchange. During his time in Leicester, he undertook a major review of the Jamaican Constabulary, examining murders, human rights abuses by police officers and firearms crime. He also conducted a review into Leicestershire Constabulary, resulting in a major re-organisation, and restructuring.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Most recently he presided over the high profile enquiries into the deaths of Damilola Taylor and Victoria Climbie.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Ghaffur received the Queen\u2019s Police Medal in 2001 and a CBE in 2004 while last year he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking on his Honorary Doctorate he said: \u201cIt is an honour and privilege to receive the Honorary Doctorate Degree from such a recognised and highly respected University. Having worked and lived in Leicester, I know only too well the great multicultural credentials and traditions of the city that are shared by the University.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASIAN police chief Tarique Ghaffur, CBE is to be honoured by the University of Leicester. &#13; Mr Ghaffur, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and a former Superintendent of the Leicestershire Constabulary, will be honoured at the University\u2019s Jubilee Degree Congregations on 25 January. &#13; Mr Ghaffur has had a distinguished career within the police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}