British politician and retired police officer, currently sitting in the House of Lords as a life peer. Until his retirement in May 2007, Paddick was Deputy Assistant Commissioner in London's Metropolitan Police Service. He gave evidence to the Inquiry of a Metropolitan Police cover-up of systemic phone hacking by sections of the tabloid press. Paddick was a Liberal Democrat candidate for the London mayoral elections of 2008 and 2012.
Clive Soley, Labour Party MP from 1979 to 2005, first for Hammersmith North, then Hammersmith and finally Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush. Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1997 to 2001. In 2005, he was made a life peer. Gave detailed recommendations on how the PCC could work and answered questions on his efforts in 1992 to put forward a Bill on the Freedom and Responsibility of the Press.
