Head of the Grenfell Tower inquiry is accused of a conflict of interest after it emerges he helped certify cladding panels similar to those used on the ill-fated high-rise block
Sir Ken Knight was responsible for certifying cladding panels similar to Grenfell
Served as director for Warrington Certification for 13 years before Grenfell post
Fire chief certified dozens of building materials put forward by manufacturers
By Alexander Robertson For Mailonline
Published: 06:13 EDT, 4 August 2017 | Updated: 07:49 EDT, 4 August 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4760350/Grenfell-inquiry-chief-accused-conflict-interest.html
Sir Kenneth John "Ken" Knight, CBE, QFSM, DL (born 3 January 1947) a retired British firefighter and public servant. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Chief Fire Officer of the London Fire Brigade and its Commissioner for Fire and Emergency Planning. Then, from 2007 to 2013, he was the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser for England.[1]
Sir Ken was confirmed as a Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University Business School, Lancashire in 2014.
Sir Ken has also completed a review of the fire and rescue services in; Southern Ireland, Bermuda and Gibraltar and undertook a review of the national fire safety and civil defence arrangements in the Kurdish region of Iraq at the request of the Kurdish Regional Government.
Sir Ken is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers. He is also a founder Trustee of the UK Firefighters Memorial Trust and a Trustee. He is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Firefighters.
Her Majesty the Queen awarded Sir Ken the Queens’ Fire Service Medal in 1991 and the CBE in 2001. He was appointed as Her Majesty’s Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Richmond upon Thames in 2007. Sir Ken was Knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the fire and rescue service.
The Worshipful Company of Firefighters is one of the 110 livery companies of the City of London. The Company's aim is to promote the development and advancement of the science, art and the practice of firefighting, fire prevention and life safety. It operates essentially as a charitable organisation, and also encourages professionalism and the exchange of information between members and others who work in allied fields.
One of the new City livery companies, its origins date from 1988 with the founding of the Guild of Firefighters. The Company of Firefighters was recognised by the City of London Corporation from 13 June 1995 as a company without livery; it was granted livery by the Court of Aldermen on 23 October 2001, thereby becoming the Worshipful Company of Firefighters.
The Firefighters' Company ranks 103rd in the livery companies' order of precedence and is based at The Insurance Hall on Aldermanbury, near London Wall, a building it co-habits with the Worshipful Company of Insurers. The clerk to the Firefighters' Company is Steven Tamcken and the Beadle since foundation in 1988 is John E P Norris SBStJ.
The Firefighters' coat of arms is blazoned: Quarterly: 1 and 3, Argent on three Bars wavy Azure a Firehelmet Or; 2 and 4, Argent over all a Cross Gules and in pale a Sword downwards Argent; and, its motto is Flammas Oppugnantes Fidimus Deo.
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