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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Home_Affairs_spokesman" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman">Liberal Democrat Spokesperson<br /> for Home Affairs</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 October 2016 – 14 June 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tim_Farron" title="Tim Farron">Tim Farron</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Carmichael" title="Alistair Carmichael">Alistair Carmichael</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ed_Davey" title="Ed Davey">Ed Davey</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_House_of_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the House of Lords">Member of the House of Lords</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lord_Temporal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Temporal">Lord Temporal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />28 October 2013<br /><a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">Life peerage</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Brian Leonard Paddick</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1958-04-24</span>) </span>24 April 1958<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 66)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Balham" title="Balham">Balham</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Non-affiliated_members_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords">Non-affiliated</a> (since 2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> (until 2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Mary Stone</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1983; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1988)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Petter Belsvik</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="9 January 2009">2009</span>; died 2023)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Vauxhall" title="Vauxhall">Vauxhall</a>, London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Queen%27s_College,_Oxford" title="The Queen's College, Oxford">The Queen's College, Oxford</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Warwick" title="University of Warwick">University of Warwick</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">MBA</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzwilliam_College,_Cambridge" title="Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge">Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge</a> (<a href="/wiki/Postgraduate_diploma" title="Postgraduate diploma">PGD</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brianpaddick.com">www<wbr />.brianpaddick<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4964977#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Police career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Service</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Service years</th><td class="infobox-data">1976–2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Assistant_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Assistant Commissioner">Deputy Assistant Commissioner</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Brian Leonard Paddick, Baron Paddick</b> (born 24 April 1958), is a British <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> and retired <a href="/wiki/Police_officer" title="Police officer">police officer</a>. He was the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2008_London_mayoral_election" title="2008 London mayoral election">London mayoral elections of 2008</a> and <a href="/wiki/2012_London_mayoral_election" title="2012 London mayoral election">of 2012</a>, and until his retirement in May 2007 was a <a href="/wiki/Deputy_assistant_commissioner" title="Deputy assistant commissioner">deputy assistant commissioner</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan Police Service">Metropolitan Police Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Independent:_Happy_pills_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent:_Happy_pills-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paddick joined the Metropolitan Police in 1976. Rising through the ranks, he was appointed the officer in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Department" title="Criminal Investigation Department">Criminal Investigation Department</a> (CID) at <a href="/wiki/Notting_Hill" title="Notting Hill">Notting Hill</a> in 1995, then returned to <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">New Scotland Yard</a>, first as <a href="/wiki/Superintendent_(police)" title="Superintendent (police)">Superintendent</a> of the Personnel Department in 1996 and then as <a href="/wiki/Chief_Superintendent#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Superintendent">Chief Superintendent</a> in 1997. In December 2000 he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Commander#British_police_rank" title="Commander">Police Commander</a> for the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Lambeth" title="London Borough of Lambeth">London Borough of Lambeth</a>, where he worked until 2002. </p><p>In the latter capacity, Paddick attracted controversy by instructing his police officers not to arrest or charge people found with <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> so that they could focus on crimes that were affecting the quality of life in the borough to a greater extent. </p><p>In late 2002, the <a href="/wiki/Crown_Prosecution_Service" title="Crown Prosecution Service">Crown Prosecution Service</a> decided that no charges would be brought against him in relation to alleged cannabis possession;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in December 2003 Paddick and the <i><a href="/wiki/Mail_on_Sunday" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail on Sunday">Mail on Sunday</a></i> settled legal proceedings brought by him, with the newspaper accepting that a story it had published was false (which had alleged he had used cannabis), apologising, and paying damages.<sup id="cite_ref-Day_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Day-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bennetto_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bennetto-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2005 Paddick took over management of territorial policing across all 32 <a href="/wiki/London_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="London borough">London boroughs</a>. During the investigation by the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Police_Complaints_Commission" title="Independent Police Complaints Commission">Independent Police Complaints Commission</a> (IPCC) into the wrongful shooting of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Charles de Menezes">Jean Charles de Menezes</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stockwell_Tube_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockwell Tube station">Stockwell Tube station</a> on 22 July 2005, Paddick stated that a member of the private office team of <a href="/wiki/Ian_Blair" title="Ian Blair">Sir Ian Blair</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_the_Metropolitan_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police">Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police</a>, had believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting. This allegation was contradicted by New Scotland Yard. On 28 March 2006, Paddick accepted a statement from the Metropolitan Police that it "did not intend to imply" a senior officer had misled the probe into the shooting and that "any misunderstanding is regretted".<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_regret_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_regret-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, following the disagreement, Paddick was assigned the position of group director of information management at New Scotland Yard, which he considered a "non-job". He came to accept that his police career was over, and retired from the police force on 31 May 2007. In November 2007, it was announced that Paddick had been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_London" title="Mayor of London">Mayor of London</a> in the mayoral elections to be held on 1 May 2008. He came third, behind <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ken_Livingstone" title="Ken Livingstone">Ken Livingstone</a>, winning 9.8 per cent of first preference votes. </p><p>Paddick was created a <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> in 2013, taking the title <b>Baron Paddick</b>, of <a href="/wiki/Brixton" title="Brixton">Brixton</a> in the London Borough of <a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sitting in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> for the Liberal Democrats. He became a <a href="/wiki/Non-affiliated_members_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords">non-affiliated member of the Lords</a> upon his appointment as a non-executive advisor for the Metropolitan Police in 2023. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paddick was born on 24 April 1958 in <a href="/wiki/Balham,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Balham, London">Balham</a> in London, England, and spent his early years in <a href="/wiki/Mitcham" title="Mitcham">Mitcham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tooting_Bec" title="Tooting Bec">Tooting Bec</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Bec_Grammar_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Bec Grammar School">Bec Grammar School</a> in Tooting Bec, and at Sutton Manor High School (now <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Grammar_School" title="Sutton Grammar School">Sutton Grammar School</a>), in <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Sutton" title="London Borough of Sutton">Sutton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He went on to take a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philosophy,_Politics_and_Economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy, Politics and Economics">Philosophy, Politics and Economics</a><sup id="cite_ref-lambeth4paddick_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambeth4paddick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at <a href="/wiki/The_Queen%27s_College,_Oxford" title="The Queen's College, Oxford">The Queen's College, Oxford</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">Master of Business Administration</a> at <a href="/wiki/Warwick_Business_School" title="Warwick Business School">Warwick Business School</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Warwick" title="University of Warwick">University of Warwick</a> (1989–1990)<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on police scholarships;<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also studied for a <a href="/wiki/Postgraduate_Diploma" class="mw-redirect" title="Postgraduate Diploma">postgraduate Diploma</a> in Policing and Applied <a href="/wiki/Criminology" title="Criminology">Criminology</a> at <a href="/wiki/Fitzwilliam_College,_Cambridge" title="Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge">Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he was at Oxford, he was Captain of the University Swimming Team and Vice-Captain of his college's rugby team.<sup id="cite_ref-lambeth4paddick_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambeth4paddick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is the twin brother of J. H. Paddick and the grandson of a policeman<sup id="cite_ref-lambeth4paddick_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambeth4paddick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the son of Anthony Henry J. Paddick and Evelyn Perkin. He is the second cousin once removed of actor and comedian <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Paddick" title="Hugh Paddick">Hugh Paddick</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Police_career">Police career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Police career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paddick joined the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan Police Service">Metropolitan Police Service</a> in 1976, living in <a href="/wiki/Highbury" title="Highbury">Highbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Limehouse" title="Limehouse">Limehouse</a> while he worked for four years as a <a href="/wiki/Constable#United_Kingdom" title="Constable">Constable</a> in <a href="/wiki/Holloway,_London" title="Holloway, London">Holloway</a>. Rising through the ranks, he served as a response team officer, community officer, detective, and as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Support_Group" title="Territorial Support Group">Territorial Support Group</a> (commonly referred to as the TSG or riot squad). Paddick was a sergeant on the front line during the <a href="/wiki/1981_Brixton_riot" title="1981 Brixton riot">1981 Brixton riot</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an experience that shaped his attitudes about confrontational police action and strengthened his belief in <a href="/wiki/Community_policing" title="Community policing">community policing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed <a href="/wiki/Inspector#United_Kingdom" title="Inspector">Inspector</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fulham" title="Fulham">Fulham</a> in 1983, <a href="/wiki/Chief_Inspector#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Inspector">Chief Inspector</a> of the Personnel Department of <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">New Scotland Yard</a> in 1986, a staff officer in 1991, and Chief Inspector in <a href="/wiki/Brixton" title="Brixton">Brixton</a> in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this period, he also worked in <a href="/wiki/Deptford" title="Deptford">Deptford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lewisham" title="Lewisham">Lewisham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thornton_Heath" title="Thornton Heath">Thornton Heath</a> (where his brother was the local <a href="/wiki/Vicar" title="Vicar">vicar</a>) and Notting Hill while living in Sutton, <a href="/wiki/Pimlico" title="Pimlico">Pimlico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, and for a while outside London.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, Paddick became the officer in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Department" title="Criminal Investigation Department">Criminal Investigation Department</a> (CID) at <a href="/wiki/Notting_Hill" title="Notting Hill">Notting Hill</a> and was responsible for policing the <a href="/wiki/Notting_Hill_Carnival" title="Notting Hill Carnival">Notting Hill Carnival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_scotland_yard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/New_scotland_yard.jpg/170px-New_scotland_yard.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/New_scotland_yard.jpg/255px-New_scotland_yard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/New_scotland_yard.jpg/340px-New_scotland_yard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">New Scotland Yard</a>, London</figcaption></figure> <p>Paddick returned to New Scotland Yard, first as <a href="/wiki/Superintendent_(police)" title="Superintendent (police)">Superintendent</a> of the Personnel Department in 1996 and then as <a href="/wiki/Chief_Superintendent#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Superintendent">Chief Superintendent</a> in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then served as Borough Commander for <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Merton" title="London Borough of Merton">Merton</a> for two and a half years (1997–1999), responsible for policing <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a>, Mitcham and Merton. After attending the <a href="/wiki/Police_Staff_College,_Bramshill" title="Police Staff College, Bramshill">Police Staff College</a> in 2000, in December 2000 he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Commander#British_police_rank" title="Commander">Police Commander</a> for the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Lambeth" title="London Borough of Lambeth">London Borough of Lambeth</a> where he worked until 2002,<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> fulfilling his ambition of becoming head of policing in Brixton. At Lambeth he had direct responsibility for 940 police officers and 230 support staff, and an annual budget of £37 million.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a stint in the <a href="/wiki/Specialist_Crime_Directorate_(Metropolitan_Police)" title="Specialist Crime Directorate (Metropolitan Police)">Specialist Crime Directorate</a>, which deals with serious cases such as murder, kidnap and fraud, Paddick returned to borough-based policing, overseeing the northwest London boroughs of <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barnet" title="London Borough of Barnet">Barnet</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Brent" title="London Borough of Brent">Brent</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Camden" title="London Borough of Camden">Camden</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Ealing" title="London Borough of Ealing">Ealing</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hammersmith_and_Fulham" title="London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham">Hammersmith and Fulham</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Harrow" title="London Borough of Harrow">Harrow</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hillingdon" title="London Borough of Hillingdon">Hillingdon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Islington" title="London Borough of Islington">Islington</a> between 2002 and 2003. He was also responsible for youth and community issues including <a href="/wiki/Police_Community_Support_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Police Community Support Officer">Police Community Support Officers</a> and police volunteers across the whole of London.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2003 Paddick was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Assistant_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Assistant Commissioner">Deputy Assistant Commissioner</a>, and in April 2005 he took over management of Territorial Policing across all 32 <a href="/wiki/London_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="London borough">London boroughs</a>, with responsibility for 20,000 police officers and support staff. He was accountable for reducing "volume crime" in London (all offences up to and including rape in terms of seriousness) and increasing the number of offenders brought to justice. He was the national lead for the police service on disability and mental health issues for a year and a half. He was also in the media spotlight as the senior Metropolitan Police Service spokesman for the <a href="/wiki/Funeral_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales" title="Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales">Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales</a> and after the <a href="/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings" title="7 July 2005 London bombings">7 July 2005 London bombings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following a widely publicised disagreement with Sir <a href="/wiki/Ian_Blair" title="Ian Blair">Ian Blair</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_the_Metropolitan_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police">Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police</a>, over the wrongful shooting of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Charles de Menezes">Jean Charles de Menezes</a> at <a href="/wiki/Stockwell_Tube_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockwell Tube station">Stockwell Tube station</a> on 22 July 2005, Paddick was assigned the position of group director of information management, which he considered a "non-job". Claiming that the <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> had intervened for political reasons to ensure that Blair would not have to resign over the incident as it had occurred in the aftermath of <a href="/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings" title="21 July 2005 London bombings">21 July 2005 London bombings</a>, Paddick says he came to accept that his police career was over and that he would never achieve his goal of becoming a chief constable.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paddick retired from the police force on 31 May 2007. He is currently a <a href="/wiki/Fellow#Academia" title="Fellow">Visiting Fellow</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ashridge_Business_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashridge Business School">Ashridge Business School</a> near <a href="/wiki/Berkhamsted" title="Berkhamsted">Berkhamsted</a> in Hertfordshire, where he lectures on leadership, change management and diversity.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Press_controversy">Press controversy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Press controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2001, as Commander for the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Lambeth" title="London Borough of Lambeth">London Borough of Lambeth</a>, Paddick started to make postings on London web discussion forum <a href="/wiki/Urban75" title="Urban75">Urban75</a>. According to Paddick's autobiography, he had initially contacted Urban75 as part of an Internet campaign against the Brixton-based <a href="/wiki/Movement_For_Justice_By_Any_Means_Necessary" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement For Justice By Any Means Necessary">Movement For Justice By Any Means Necessary</a> (MFJ), which was campaigning for justice after the police killing of local Derek Bennett.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also attacked MFJ chairman Alex Owolade who was subsequently sacked from his employment with Lambeth London Borough Council.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>At around this time, the national press also began coverage of the pilot cannabis programme in Brixton where officers were instructed not to arrest or charge people who were found to be in possession of <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a>. They were instead to issue on-the-spot warnings and confiscate the drugs. Although Paddick is credited with the idea, the pilot programme was sanctioned by the <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Police_of_the_Metropolis" title="Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis">Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Stevens,_Baron_Stevens_of_Kirkwhelpington" title="John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington">Sir John Stevens</a>. </p><p>Paddick argued that the policy allowed his officers to deal with cannabis quickly and informally, freeing them to concentrate on heroin and <a href="/wiki/Crack_cocaine" title="Crack cocaine">crack cocaine</a> offences, as well as other offences such as street robbery and burglary, which he and others felt were affecting the quality of life in Lambeth to a greater extent. "[P]olice officers said they weren't prepared any longer to drop cannabis down the drain because one of their colleagues had been arrested by internal investigators apparently for doing just that. They were going to arrest everybody they found even with the smallest amount of cannabis. I couldn't have allowed that to happen. They would have been doing nothing else."<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critics accused him of being soft on drugs, and the policy became a source of public controversy and debate. The situation worsened when <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mail_on_Sunday" title="The Mail on Sunday">The Mail on Sunday</a></i> published a false story by his former partner, James Renolleau, that Commander Paddick had used cannabis himself. They also highlighted his homosexuality as a matter of concern, and claimed he was an anarchist based on a comment he had made on Urban75 in January 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, he had written that "the concept of anarchy has always appealed to me", but that he was "not sure everyone would behave well if there were no laws and no system."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the controversy, Paddick was transferred to an intelligence position and the allegations were investigated by the <a href="/wiki/Crown_Prosecution_Service" title="Crown Prosecution Service">Crown Prosecution Service</a>. His transfer led to public rallies in Lambeth in his support. The CPS decided in late 2002 that no charges would be brought. In November 2003, Paddick was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Territorial Policing. In a December 2003 <a href="/wiki/Settlement_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Settlement (law)">out-of-court settlement</a>, the <i>Mail on Sunday</i> accepted that their story was false, apologised, and paid damages.<sup id="cite_ref-Day_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Day-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The situation did, however, encourage the <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Government">British government</a> to re-evaluate its policies with regard to drugs, and reclassifying cannabis from a class B to a class C drug was suggested. Subsequently, the law was altered in February 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2007 Paddick commented: "I always felt like a fish out of water in the police, not just on gay issues but generally. I was a very counter-cultural senior officer. I'm very non-hierarchical and got into trouble for insisting on people calling me by my first name. I was trying to effect the most difficult change there is in an organisation, which is a change of culture – to try to make it more liberal, more understanding of difference."<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jean_Charles_de_Menezes">Jean Charles de Menezes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Jean Charles de Menezes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings" title="21 July 2005 London bombings">21 July 2005 London bombings</a> and the subsequent police shooting of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Charles de Menezes">Jean Charles de Menezes</a> on 22 July 2005 at the <a href="/wiki/Stockwell_Tube_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockwell Tube station">Stockwell Tube station</a> in London, Paddick met <a href="/wiki/Stockwell" title="Stockwell">Stockwell</a> community leaders. <a href="/wiki/Kate_Hoey" title="Kate Hoey">Kate Hoey</a>, Member of Parliament for Vauxhall which covers the area, had requested the meeting to help reassure local residents. </p><p>Paddick was quoted by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> as stating, "It was a very calm meeting. People were very understanding of the circumstances that these officers found themselves in. We expressed our sympathy to the family of the person who was tragically killed. It was a very measured meeting, but a very positive meeting." He would not promise that a similar tragedy would never happen again, but he stated it was not likely.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2006 it was revealed that Paddick had consulted libel lawyers in connection with statements issued by <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a>. In verbal and written statements to the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Police_Complaints_Commission" title="Independent Police Complaints Commission">Independent Police Complaints Commission</a> (IPCC) on their investigations into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, he had stated that a member of the <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_the_Metropolitan_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police">Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police</a> Sir Ian Blair's private office team believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting. This was contrary to statements made at the time. </p><p>When this allegation became public following an unauthorised disclosure, Scotland Yard issued a statement claiming that the officer alleged to have believed this [Paddick] "has categorically denied this in his interview with, and statement to, the IPCC investigators". The statement continued that they "were satisfied that whatever the reasons for this suggestion being made, it is simply not true". Paddick's interpretation of this statement was that it accused him of lying.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 March 2006, Paddick accepted a statement from the Metropolitan Police that it "did not intend to imply" a senior officer had misled the probe into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said "any misunderstanding is regretted" and that Paddick had accepted its "clarification" and considered the matter closed.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_regret_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_regret-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a lengthy interview with Paddick published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> on 17 November 2007 detailing his thinking on becoming London Mayor, he made a revealing comment possibly connected with difficulties that have arisen because of the de Menezes killing: "Policing is a dangerous job, we should trust the professional judgement of officers on the front line. We shouldn't prosecute them or their bosses if they decide to put their lives on the line for the public."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, on 26 November 2007 in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> Paddick was asked if Commissioner Ian Blair should have resigned over the de Menezes case. His response was: "Yes. The public allows the police to use force on the understanding that someone will be held to account if something goes wrong. An innocent man was killed by the police and in the absence of any individual officer being held to account, the person at the top should take responsibility."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Liberal_Democrat_candidate_for_Mayor_of_London">Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg/220px-Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg/330px-Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg/440px-Brian_Paddick-on_the_podium_London_mayoral_elections_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>Paddick speaking in City Hall after the results of the London mayoral election had been announced, 3 May 2008</figcaption></figure> <p>In August 2006, it was reported by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s "Pendennis" column that Paddick was considering seeking selection as the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>' candidate for <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_London" title="Mayor of London">Mayor of London</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2008_London_mayoral_election" title="2008 London mayoral election">mayoral elections to be held in 2008</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was confirmed a year later by the BBC.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received an endorsement from <a href="/wiki/Lynne_Featherstone" title="Lynne Featherstone">Lynne Featherstone MP</a>, a former member of the <a href="/wiki/London_Assembly" title="London Assembly">London Assembly</a>, on her blog.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 September 2007, Paddick informed <i><a href="/wiki/Pink_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Pink News">Pink News</a></i> of some of his priorities if elected mayor. On illegal drugs, he reiterated that they are "dangerous and harmful and it is better if people live without them", but that he had a "realistic approach" to enforcement and would not be afraid of adopting a "radical solution if it's fully thought through, if it's workable, affordable and gets the right result". He promised to regulate the timings of London's buses and to apply the <a href="/wiki/London_congestion_charge" title="London congestion charge">London congestion charge</a> in a more sophisticated manner that differentiated wealthy chauffeur-driven chief executives from delivery drivers. As regards the <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" title="2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Summer Olympics</a> to be held in London, he pledged to ensure that "the best possible show" would be staged with "value for money for every single pound spent".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, in a leaflet released on his campaign website on 10 September, he pledged to "put more police officers, fully trained, equipped and with the necessary powers out on the street, dealing with violent gun and knife crime", to take the lead in tackling <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> and minimising the impact on the environment by powering the <a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a> with <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a>, and to provide the right environment for business without interfering in businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 13 November 2007, it was announced that Paddick had been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won 73% of the first preference votes during the selection contest.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paddick joined, among others, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Livingstone" title="Ken Livingstone">Ken Livingstone</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> candidate and <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>. However, a poll conducted by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/ICM_(polling)" class="mw-redirect" title="ICM (polling)">ICM</a> published on 3 April 2008 found that Paddick was the first choice of only 10% of voters. He therefore had little chance of winning, as 42% supported Johnson and 41% Livingstone.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poll was borne out by the results of the elections on 1 May 2008. On 3 May it was announced that Boris Johnson had been elected. Paddick was in third place behind Ken Livingstone, with 9.8% (236,685 out of 2,415,958) of the first preference votes.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg/220px-John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg/330px-John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg/440px-John_Barrowman_at_London_Gay_Pride_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1664" /></a><figcaption>Paddick on a <a href="/wiki/Float_(parade)" title="Float (parade)">float</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Pride_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Pride London">London Gay Pride parade</a> on 30 June 2007 with, from his right, actor <a href="/wiki/John_Barrowman" title="John Barrowman">John Barrowman</a> and Barrowman's partner Scott Gill</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liberal_Democrat_candidate_for_Mayor_of_London_election_2012">Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London election 2012</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London election 2012"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On Thursday 16 June 2011, it was reported that Paddick had entered nomination papers to stand once again for the Liberal Democrats in the <a href="/wiki/2012_London_mayoral_election" title="2012 London mayoral election">2012 London mayoral elections</a>. On Friday 2 September he was selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On election day itself, Paddick won 91,774 or 4.16% of the first preference votes, behind eventual winner Boris Johnson for the Conservatives, former mayor Ken Livingstone for Labour, and <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Greens</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Jones_(Green_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jenny Jones (Green politician)">Jenny Jones</a>. He lost almost half of his support compared to 2008, mainly attributed to the performance of the coalition government in Westminster and the popularity levels of the Liberal Democrats on a national scale. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="House_of_Lords_activities">House of Lords activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: House of Lords activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Having been elevated to the House of Lords on 16 September 2013, he led a debate on the public trust of police, on 28 November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2016 Autumn Party Convention, Lord Paddick saw the Liberty and Security Policy Paper produced by the working party he chaired accepted by the convention. This paper, while recognising the danger of terrorism, took issue with the <a href="/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigatory Powers Bill">Investigatory Powers Bill</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Counter-Extremism_and_Safeguarding_Bill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill (page does not exist)">Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill</a>, rejecting "the idea that indiscriminate monitoring or limiting of legal free speech enhances security."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2023, Lord Paddick withdrew from Liberal Democrat whip following his appointment as a non-executive advisor with the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a>. He will sit as a <a href="/wiki/Non-affiliated_members_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords">non-affiliated member</a> for the duration of the appointment.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since childhood, Paddick has known he was gay, but between 1983 and 1988 he was married to Mary Stone in what he called "a genuine attempt to live as a straight man" – "It's what my faith as a Christian expected of me. It's what my parents expected of me. It's what the police service expected of me. Mary was a very beautiful and charming woman. It was a genuine attempt to try and deny my sexuality and to 'do the right thing'."<sup id="cite_ref-Independent:_Happy_pills_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent:_Happy_pills-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Paddick, it was "a fairly conventional marriage" and his former wife said it was "a wonderful marriage". She did not know he was gay. He struggled with his sexuality until towards the end of his marriage in 1988: "I learned the lesson about being yourself before that, and being open about my sexuality was the last piece in the jigsaw. I wasn't open about my sexuality until I was a commander."<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A November 2003 profile in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> noted: "Mr Paddick is relaxed enough to laugh at himself and told a gay magazine: 'My last staff officer got promoted and went to royalty protection. In his leaving card I wrote, "Same job, different Queen".'"<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paddick currently lives in <a href="/wiki/Vauxhall" title="Vauxhall">Vauxhall</a>, London. He lived there previously with Petter Belsvik,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a civil engineer from <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>, Norway; they met in a bar while on holiday in <a href="/wiki/Ibiza" title="Ibiza">Ibiza</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrianPaddick4London-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Independent:_Happy_pills_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Independent:_Happy_pills-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They married in Oslo, <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Norway" title="Same-sex marriage in Norway">same-sex marriage in Norway</a> being legalised 8 days before, on 9 January 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Belsvik died at the end of February 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paddick was a contestant on the eighth series of the <a href="/wiki/ITV1" title="ITV1">ITV1</a> reality television show <i><a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Celebrity..._Get_Me_out_of_Here!_(Series_8_UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! (Series 8 UK)">I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!</a></i>, which began its broadcast on 16 November 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 December 2008, he became the sixth celebrity to be voted off the show. Interviewed by the show's hosts <a href="/wiki/Ant_%26_Dec" title="Ant & Dec">Ant & Dec</a> after leaving the jungle, he explained his reasons for participating: "For a long time I've been doing serious stuff. Thirty years in the police and running for mayor. It's all bad news that they want me to comment on. So I thought why not come and do something trivial. ... It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, anything after this is a breeze."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, Paddick was ranked number 101 in the annual Pink List of influential gay and lesbian people in Britain published by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent on Sunday</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> down from number 83 in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, Paddick appeared on Channel 4's alternative election night special of <i><a href="/wiki/Come_Dine_with_Me" title="Come Dine with Me">Come Dine with Me</a></i> alongside <a href="/wiki/Edwina_Currie" title="Edwina Currie">Edwina Currie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rod_Liddle" title="Rod Liddle">Rod Liddle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Derek_Hatton" title="Derek Hatton">Derek Hatton</a>. </p><p>Speaking about his marriage in Norway as part of the 2010 Liberal Democrat debate about equal marriage for gay people, Paddick said: "The real impact of [marriage rather than a civil partnership], the symbolism of it, the importance of it, didn't really strike me until we stood in front of the judge in the courthouse in Oslo, and she said ... we're here today to witness the marriage of Brian and Petter. And that was an intensely moving experience. We really feel, my husband and I, that we are really equal because we are married."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2018, Paddick revealed that he was a participant in the PrEP<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis" title="Pre-exposure prophylaxis">Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis</a>) medication trials being carried out at the time by the NHS in England. The medication is used to prevent HIV-negative people from acquiring HIV. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Independent:_Happy_pills-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Independent:_Happy_pills_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Independent:_Happy_pills_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Independent:_Happy_pills_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCole_Moreton2008" class="citation news cs1">Cole Moreton (13 April 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/brian-paddick-truth-lies-and-happy-pills-808486.html">"Brian Paddick: Truth, lies and happy pills"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>. 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href="#cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BrianPaddick4London_9-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071012034851/http://brianpaddick4london.net/mayor/">"About Brian"</a>. BrianPaddick4London. 9 September 2007. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brianpaddick4london.net/mayor/">the original</a> on 12 October 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 September</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=About+Brian&rft.pub=BrianPaddick4London&rft.date=2007-09-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brianpaddick4london.net%2Fmayor%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Brian_Paddick_10-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVikram_Dodd2003" class="citation news cs1">Vikram Dodd (28 November 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/crime/article/0,,1095211,00.html">"The Guardian Profile: Brian Paddick"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=The+Guardian+Profile%3A+Brian+Paddick&rft.date=2003-11-28&rft.au=Vikram+Dodd&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcrime%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C1095211%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lambeth4paddick-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lambeth4paddick_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lambeth4paddick_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lambeth4paddick_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lambeth4paddick.org/html/paddick_in_lambeth.html">"Biography"</a>. lambeth4paddick<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 September</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Biography&rft.pub=lambeth4paddick&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lambeth4paddick.org%2Fhtml%2Fpaddick_in_lambeth.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNick_Hopkins2002" class="citation news cs1">Nick Hopkins (19 March 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4376924,00.html">"Trials and errors of controversial cop: How onslaught by critics took its toll of ambitious gay police chief"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Trials+and+errors+of+controversial+cop%3A+How+onslaught+by+critics+took+its+toll+of+ambitious+gay+police+chief&rft.date=2002-03-19&rft.au=Nick+Hopkins&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2FArchive%2FArticle%2F0%2C4273%2C4376924%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Battle for Brixton</i>, an April 2006 <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC2</a> documentary.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian:_Out_But_Not_Down_14-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStephen_Moss2007" class="citation news cs1">Stephen Moss (18 September 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,,2171412,00.html">"The man who would be mayor [print version: Out but not down]"</a>. <i>The Guardian (g2)</i>. London. pp. 12–15.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian+%28g2%29&rft.atitle=The+man+who+would+be+mayor+%26%2391%3Bprint+version%3A+Out+but+not+down%26%2393%3B&rft.pages=12-15&rft.date=2007-09-18&rft.au=Stephen+Moss&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fg2%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C2171412%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1450042.stm">"Brixton violence 'against racist police'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 21 July 2001.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Brixton+violence+%27against+racist+police%27&rft.date=2001-07-21&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk%2F1450042.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrian_Paddick2008" class="citation book cs1">Brian Paddick (2008). <i>Line of Fire</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>. p. 152. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84737-174-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84737-174-4"><bdi>978-1-84737-174-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Line+of+Fire&rft.place=London&rft.pages=152&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-84737-174-4&rft.au=Brian+Paddick&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREF"Brian"_(Brian_Paddick)2002" class="citation web cs1">"Brian" (Brian Paddick) (12 January 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=8148&postcount=70">"[Message posted on Urban75 by Brian Paddick]"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Urban75" title="Urban75">Urban75</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 September</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%26%2391%3BMessage+posted+on+Urban75+by+Brian+Paddick%26%2393%3B&rft.pub=Urban75&rft.date=2002-01-12&rft.au=%22Brian%22+%28Brian+Paddick%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urban75.net%2Fvbulletin%2Fshowpost.php%3Fp%3D8148%26postcount%3D70&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1866274.stm">"Police chief rebuked over 'anarchy' remark"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 11 March 2002.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Police+chief+rebuked+over+%27anarchy%27+remark&rft.date=2002-03-11&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fengland%2F1866274.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrian_Paddick2002" class="citation news cs1">Brian Paddick (14 May 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.urban75.org/paddick/mirror.html">"Paddick: Some police officers are thugs"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Mirror" class="mw-redirect" title="The Daily Mirror">The Daily Mirror</a> (reproduced on <a href="/wiki/Urban75" title="Urban75">Urban75</a>)</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Mirror+%28reproduced+on+Urban75%29&rft.atitle=Paddick%3A+Some+police+officers+are+thugs&rft.date=2002-05-14&rft.au=Brian+Paddick&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urban75.org%2Fpaddick%2Fmirror.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3334321.stm">"Newspaper pays damages to officer"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 19 December 2003.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Newspaper+pays+damages+to+officer&rft.date=2003-12-19&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fengland%2Flondon%2F3334321.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis#United_Kingdom" title="Legality of cannabis">Legality of cannabis#United Kingdom</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711989.stm">"Met's Paddick in Stockwell Visit"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 24 July 2005.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Met%27s+Paddick+in+Stockwell+Visit&rft.date=2005-07-24&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk%2F4711989.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4816934.stm">"Menezes Claim Sparks Libel Talks"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 17 March 2006.</cite><span 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London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=The+Guardian+Profile%3A+Brian+Paddick&rft.date=2003-11-28&rft.aulast=Dodd&rft.aufirst=Vikram&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcrime%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C1095211%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,2066404,00.html">"Brian Paddick's CV"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London. 27 April 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Brian+Paddick%27s+CV&rft.date=2006-04-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fuk_news%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C2066404%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071012034851/http://brianpaddick4london.net/mayor/">"About Brian"</a>. BrianPaddick4London. 9 September 2007. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brianpaddick4london.net/mayor/">the original</a> on 12 October 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 September</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=About+Brian&rft.pub=BrianPaddick4London&rft.date=2007-09-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brianpaddick4london.net%2Fmayor%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="News_reports">News reports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: News reports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/crime/article/0,,653490,00.html">"Urban cool: We need more police officers like Paddick [leader]"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London. 21 February 2002<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Urban+cool%3A+We+need+more+police+officers+like+Paddick+%26%2391%3Bleader%26%2393%3B&rft.date=2002-02-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcrime%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C653490%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHopkins2002" class="citation news cs1">Hopkins, Nick (12 March 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/crime/article/0,,665797,00.html">"Rebuke for 'anarchy' police chief"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Rebuke+for+%27anarchy%27+police+chief&rft.date=2002-03-12&rft.aulast=Hopkins&rft.aufirst=Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcrime%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C665797%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/crime/article/0,,670000,00.html">"A decent troublemaker: Paddick's views will stand the test of time [leader]"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London. 19 March 2002<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=A+decent+troublemaker%3A+Paddick%27s+views+will+stand+the+test+of+time+%26%2391%3Bleader%26%2393%3B&rft.date=2002-03-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcrime%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C670000%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/letters/story/0,,669842,00.html">"Respect for Paddick [letter]"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London. 19 March 2002<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Respect+for+Paddick+%26%2391%3Bletter%26%2393%3B&rft.date=2002-03-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fletters%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C669842%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSlocombe2002" class="citation news cs1">Slocombe, Mike (20 March 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/crime/article/0,,670762,00.html">"He's a fair copper – and it was an unfair cop"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=He%27s+a+fair+copper+%E2%80%93+and+it+was+an+unfair+cop&rft.date=2002-03-20&rft.aulast=Slocombe&rft.aufirst=Mike&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcrime%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C670762%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/letters/story/0,,671150,00.html">"Puff for cannabis cop"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London. 21 March 2002<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Puff+for+cannabis+cop&rft.date=2002-03-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fletters%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C671150%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillan2002" class="citation news cs1">Gillan, Andrew (22 March 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/drugs/Story/0,,671899,00.html">"He was one of us, say dismayed Brixtonians"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=He+was+one+of+us%2C+say+dismayed+Brixtonians&rft.date=2002-03-22&rft.aulast=Gillan&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fdrugs%2FStory%2F0%2C%2C671899%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDay2003" class="citation news cs1">Day, Julia (19 December 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,1110640,00.html">"Mail on Sunday rounds on Paddick"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Mail+on+Sunday+rounds+on+Paddick&rft.date=2003-12-19&rft.aulast=Day&rft.aufirst=Julia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.guardian.co.uk%2Fpressprivacy%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C1110640%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWells2003" class="citation news cs1">Wells, Matt (20 December 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1110856,00.html">"Paper pays damages to police chief"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Paper+pays+damages+to+police+chief&rft.date=2003-12-20&rft.aulast=Wells&rft.aufirst=Matt&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fuk_news%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C1110856%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPaddick2008" class="citation book cs1">Paddick, Brian (2008). <i>Line of Fire</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84737-174-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84737-174-4"><bdi>978-1-84737-174-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Line+of+Fire&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-84737-174-4&rft.aulast=Paddick&rft.aufirst=Brian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrian+Paddick%2C+Baron+Paddick" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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