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British police officer
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31 March 1925(Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands)
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Biography
Introduction
Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read QPM (born 31 March 1925) is a British former policeman and boxing administrator.
Career
Read served as a petty officer in the Royal Navy during the war. He joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1947. He was Detective Chief Superintendent of Met's Murder Squad in 1967, and efforts of detectives led by him were responsible for the conviction of Ronnie and Reginald Kray. He held various positions as a boxing administrator, most notably chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control, vice president of the World Boxing Council and vice-president of the World Boxing Association.
He has published two autobiographies with ghostwriter James Morton; Nipper 1991; and Nipper Read: the man who nicked the Krays (2001).
In popular culture
- Read was parodied by Monty Python in their sketch "The Piranha Brothers", in which the Piranha brothers are caught by "Harry 'Snapper' Organs".
- Read was portrayed by actor Christopher Eccleston in the 2015 film Legend.