| Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur is a member of the Commissioner's Chief Officer team. He has responsibility for the Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD). He is the highest-ranking Asian police officer in the United Kingdom having achieved Chief Constable status in 2001. His current responsibilities include homicide investigation, serious gun crime, the Flying Squad, Economic and Public Sector crime and organised and serious crime.
Tarique started his police career with Greater Manchester Police in 1974. In 1996 he was promoted to Assistant Chief Constable (Lancashire). He then moved to the Metropolitan Police Service in September 1999 as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner. Following a restructure of South Area he became the DAC in charge of Operations, and then became Borough Commander of the City of Westminster in 2000. .
In November 2002, Tarique assumed responsibility for the Specialist Crime Directorate. This was a new Directorate, which took over much of the work of what had previously been the sole responsibility of Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations. He received the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in 2001 for his services to policing. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of East London in November 2003. Most recently, in June 2004, Mr Ghaffur was awarded a CBE for services to policing in the 2004 Queen's birthday honours list.
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