Alan Brown

Alan James Brown is a retired British police officer who spent his entire career with the Metropolitan Police in London.

Brown joined the Metropolitan Police as a cadet in 1974. Operation Trident and SO19. From 2004, Brown headed Operation Paget, the Metropolitan Police investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.

On 26 January 2005, Brown was promoted to assistant commissioner and appointed Assistant Commissioner Service Improvement, a post he held until his retirement in 2006 and which included heading professional standards. He was duty assistant commissioner supervising policing across London on the day that Jean Charles de Menezes was shot. He continued to supervise Operation Paget until his departure from the Metropolitan Police.

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