Harrow council ex chief in national headlines!

Michael Lockwood, 63, director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has stepped down with immediate effect.
In a statement posted on the IOPC website on Friday night, Mr Lockwood said: ‘It is with great sadness that I have decided to resign as director general of the IOPC for personal and domestic reasons, and this will be effective from today.’
But the Mail online reported on 3rd December that Michael Lockwood quits amid ‘criminal investigation’ into an allegation some 40 years ago.
The IOPC was set up in January 2018 following the closure of its scandal-hit predecessor, the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Since he became the IOPC first director general, Mr Lockwood has presided over high-profile police conduct investigations, including ‘systemic racism’ within police forces, the 17 officers who handled the investigation into murders of four young men by Stephen Port, and Boris Johnson’s relationship with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri while he was mayor of London.
After Ms Everard’s murder last year, he said officers who fell below expected standards of behaviour were not ‘one-off events’ and couldn’t be dismissed as a ‘bad apple’, adding: ‘There must be self-awareness of the problem and firm action to tackle it by leaders.’
Mr Lockwood was the Harrow council chief executive for about 12 years till 2018 with a short break in between.
In 2014, the Labour administration decided to restore the role of chief executive and reappointed the popular council chief executive Michael Lockwood, who was forced out by the Cllr Hall (Tory) short-lived administration as they vindictively abolished the chief executive post.
Such was the nature of personalisation at the Harrow council that the members of the Tory group did not attend Mr Lockwood’s farewell event in number to demonstrate that the leaving chief executive is not popular and would not be missed.
Interestingly, Cllr Hall now chairs the London assembly’s Police and Crime Committee that examines the work of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), overseeing the Metropolitan Police work.