Mr. DeSeve was also Special Assistant to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Director of Finance for the City of Philadelphia.

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Assistant chief constables will straddle the two forces along with the director of finance and director of enabling services.

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"We have had no requests for additional finance, to cope with the oil increases, " Sanjeev Gupta, Assistant Director of the IMF's African department told the BBC.

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