Sir David McNee obituary

Sir David McNee, front right, and William Whitelaw, the home secretary, centre, are taken on a tour of riot-torn Brixton, south London. Photograph: PASir David McNee, who has died aged 94, was Britain’s most senior police officer at a time of racial, political and industrial turmoil in London – and one of the last of the old-style, non-graduate officers to lead the Metropolitan force. It was on his watch, as commissioner from 1977 until 1982, that the Brixton and Southall riots in Lo