
Michael Fuller
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Michael
Fuller is Chief
Constable of Kent and is the highest ranking Black Policeman in the
Britain. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1975 and went on to
serve in Special Branch, CID and was heavily involved in setting up the
Racial and Violent Crimes Task Force in 1998.
Fuller also helmed Operation
Trident, the on-going Met Police task force which targets gun-related
Black-on-Black crime, and is a former deputy assistant commissioner with
the Met.
Fuller
said of his 2004 appointment: "It is a historic appointment and I
hope there will be others, as with women chief officers. Over time, it
will become irrelevant, but it is a historic appointment and I am proud
and pleased."
Fuller has also been tipped to become Britain's top cop and is
thought to be in the running to become the next Commissioner of London's Metropolitan
Police. |