Sir Bernard will be interviewed by two of St Anne’s College’s current students.

Born in Sheffield, brought up by his mother and attending the local comprehensive school, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe joined the South Yorkshire Police in 1979 as a police constable.

At the age of 28 he received a police scholarship to study law at Merton. He worked up through the ranks to become Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, where he introduced ‘Total Policing’, with its ‘Total War on Crime’ and ‘Total Care for Victims’.

In September 2011, shortly after the riots in London that spread to other UK cities, he was selected by the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, and then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to be Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, holding this position until February 2017. During this time he commissioned three independent reviews of how the Met deal with: Mental Health; Sexual Offences; and Allegations of Non-Recent Sexual Abuse against High Profile Individuals.

He has recently been appointed a life peer and will sit in the House of Lords.