Last year, retired Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom, who led the probe into the Bofors scandal, said there was no evidence to prove that Mr Gandhi took a bribe, but that he did nothing to prevent a cover-up in the scandal.

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Despite local support, the police chief retired early.

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The two other former police officials, retired Deputy Chief of Patrol John Hunter and retired Seventh Precinct Squad Deputy Supervisor Alan Sharpe, are awaiting trial.

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They criticised the move to appoint Richard Crompton, the newly-retired chief constable of Lincolnshire Police, instead of well-respected acting chairman, Peter Burroughs.

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Randal Quan retired in 2002 and later served as chief of police at Cal Poly Pomona before he started practicing law.

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He has been out of the police-chief game since 2009, when he retired after a successful seven-year stint in Los Angeles.

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"As a retired police officer, this senseless shooting hits extremely close to home to me, " Brad Carpenter, chief executive officer of Forza, said in a statement on the company's Web site.

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But the overall accounts were qualified because information on MPs still under police investigation was withheld by Mr Jack - the Commons chief accounting officer, who has since retired.

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