Paddick himself joined almost as soon as he could, at the age of 21, when he was already an officer working under an unpopular superintendent in west London. And there are very good reasons for this distance to be observed, stretching back to the dark days of endemic corruption in the Met and elsewhere from the 1960s to the 1980s, when it emerged that some detectives were even in the very same lodge as career criminals.īrian – now Lord – Paddick, in his autobiography, Line of Fire, disclosed that both he and and his father had been Freemasons. I think police officers should be transparent: nothing to hide, then why not mention it? My view would be that you ought to be open about your associations.” So did Lord Condon, and most recently, in 2014, the then commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, said that it would be difficult under human rights legislation to make a register of membership compulsory, but he made it clear that “for me as a police officer, the secrecy of membership is a concern. The late Lord Imbert also took on the Freemasons when he had the top job at Scotland Yard. I think police officers should be transparent.’ Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Bernard Hogan-Howe: ‘For me as a police officer, the secrecy of membership is a concern.
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