After the home secretary’s announcement that she had lost confidence in the chief constable of West Midlands Police, Sean O’Grady examines the law as it stands and how it might be modified T he strange case of Craig Guildford, the West Midlands chief constable who confessed to using AI in an official report and lost the confidence of the home secretary , highlights the difficult political dilemmas that arise around any “top cop” when things go badly awry. Indeed, it’s not too strong to suggest