Why the home secretary can’t fire a police chief who has done wrong – it’s key to the integrity of British policing

By John Fox, Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth

Craig Guildford, the chief constable of one of Britain’s largest police forces, West Midlands Police, will retire, after coming under pressure over a controversial decision by the police to ban visiting supporters of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a match against Aston Villa.

Things escalated after it was revealed that the police used incorrect evidence that was hallucinated by AI in a report that led…

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