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| Police chief quits over blunder | |
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| Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer has resigned after revealing details of an anti-terror operation forced police to bring raids forward. | |
| Mayor of London Boris Johnson said it was "with great sadness" that he had accepted Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick's resignation. | Mayor of London Boris Johnson said it was "with great sadness" that he had accepted Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick's resignation. |
| Mr Quick inadvertently revealed secret papers to photographers when arriving for a briefing at No 10. | |
| Twelve men are in custody after the raids in north-west England. | |
| Mr Johnson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Quick had a "very, very distinguished" career and that the incident had been "extremely unfortunate". | |
| There had been no witch hunt or effort to hound him out, he said. | There had been no witch hunt or effort to hound him out, he said. |
| The mayor confirmed Assistant Commissioner John Yates would replace Mr Quick as head of counter-terrorism. | |
| The senior officer had faced intense criticism from opposition politicians after revealing the confidential document to photographers after arriving for a Downing Street briefing. | |
| FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME More from Today programme | |
| The memo, marked "secret", carried an outline briefing on an on-going counter-terrorism operation. | |
| It contained the names of several senior officers, locations and details about the nature of the overseas threat. |