John Nott-Bower was the first career police officer to hold this post.
15 Facts About John Nott-Bower
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John Nott-Bower played rugby union for Tonbridge School and golf for the Metropolitan Police and Mid-Surrey.
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John Nott-Bower was very fond of bridge and fly fishing.
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John Nott-Bower was educated at Tonbridge School and joined the Indian Police Service by competitive examination in 1911.
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John Nott-Bower was posted to the United Provinces and served there until 1921, when he returned to England to work at the India Office in London.
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John Nott-Bower commanded successively Allahabad, Lucknow and Bareilly districts, and served in the Criminal Investigation Department.
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On 29 June 1933, John Nott-Bower joined the Metropolitan Police as Chief Constable of No 1 District, consisting of A, B, C, T and V Divisions.
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John Nott-Bower was appointed Officer of the Order of St John on 24 June 1949 and was knighted in the 1950 Birthday Honours.
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Sir John Nott-Bower swore he would rip the cover off all London's filth spots.
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Under laxer police methods before the US-inspired plan began, and before Sir John Nott-Bower moved into the top job at the Yard as a man with a mission, Montagu and his film-director friend Kenneth Hume might never have been charged with grave offences against Boy Scouts.
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John Nott-Bower enlisted the support of local police throughout England to step up the number of arrests for homosexual offences.
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John Nott-Bower did set up the Research and Planning Branch and the Metropolitan and Provincial Regional Crime Squad and centralised traffic control in response to rising private car ownership.
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John Nott-Bower did little to combat the rising crime rate, however; he refused to address the outdated hardline attitudes of many senior detectives, which were becoming increasingly out of step with postwar society; and he did not support his men in their claims for better pay and conditions.
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John Nott-Bower was regarded by many of his officers as a pleasant but ineffectual man.
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John Nott-Bower retired in August 1958 and Chairman of the fire alarm manufacturer Auto Call Company in April 1960.