London, Dec 3(ANI): Former Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has been appointed to oversee reform of the police force in Bahrain, it has been reported.
Yates has been asked to overhaul the controversial service with John Timoney, a former head of Miami police, to ensure its procedures meet international human rights standards, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Yates said he would draw on experience in the Met and from working on community policing programmes with Jamaican police.
"Bahrain's police have some big challenges ahead, not dissimilar to those the UK itself faced only a couple of decades ago, but I have been impressed that the King (Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa) is doing the right thing by pressing on with big reforms," he said.
"This is a big challenge which I will undertake with a great reforming police officer like John Timoney," he added.
Yates quit his job at the Met in July amid questions over his links with an executive at Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the phone hacking scandal, but was cleared of any misconduct by watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission. (ANI)
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