"Sir Robert Mark", Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire/GBE, Queen's Police Medal/QPM was an England/English police officer who served as Chief Constable of Leicester City Police, and later as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis/Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1972 to 1977.

Mark was the first Metropolitan Commissioner to have risen through all the ranks from the lowest to the highest (a route followed by all subsequent Commissioners), although a few predecessors had served as Constables prior to fast-track promotion.

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The criminal trial today is a kind of show-jumping contest in which the rider for the prosecution must clear every obstacle to succeed.

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When you break out of the clouds on a snowy night like that, you don't try to do a nice squeaky smooth landing. You plant the plane down onto the runway.

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It's not just a matter of the cost of the airplane vs. the cost of an airline ticket, ... You have to factor in the amount of time an executive wastes waiting for connecting flights or being forced to stay overnight on the road instead of flying direct.

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