What is John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington?
{{Infobox Officeholder |honorific-prefix= [[The Right Honourable]] |name = The Lord Stevens<br>of Kirkwhelpington |honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|QPM|KStJ|DL|FRSA}} |image = |imagesize = |smallimage = |caption = |order = | office = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]] | term_start = 24 May 2005<br/>[[Life peer|Life Peerage]] | term_end = |office1 = [[Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis|Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police]] |term_start1 = 1 January 2000 |term_end1 = 31 December 2004 |predecessor1 = [[Paul Condon, Baron Condon|Sir Paul Condon]] |successor1 = [[Ian Blair|Sir Ian Blair]] |deputy1 = [[Ian Blair|Sir Ian Blair]] |birthname = John Arthur Stevens |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1942|10|21}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |profession = Police officer; head of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] (2000–2005)}} '''John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|QPM|KStJ|DL|FRSA}} (born 21 October 1942) is the former [[Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis]] (top person in the [[Metropolitan Police Service]]) from 2000 until 2005. He was made Deputy Commissioner of the Met in 1998 until his promotion to Commissioner in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/london-gets-a-new-chief-of-police-1.220801|date=27 August 1999|access-date=24 June 2021|publisher=The Irish Times|title=London gets a new chief of police}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-stevens-the-guv-nor-427706.html|title=John Stevens: The Guv'nor|publisher=The Independent|date=9 September 2006|access-date=24 June 2021}}</ref> He was a writer for the ''[[News of the World]]'', for £7,000 an article, until he left it as the [[News of the World phone hacking scandal|hacking scan