In 2004, he was suspended from July until September as a result of the Bichard report into the Soham murders.
Westwood joined Sussex Police as a constable in 1967, and became a Sergeant in Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1975.
[1] He was chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers Race and Community Relations Committee from 2000 until 2003, overseeing the introduction of new procedures for the Police Service on race issues following the publication of Sir William Macpherson's Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
[1] As a result of failings by Humberside Police highlighted by the report into the Soham murders, the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, called for Westwood's suspension,[2] but the Humberside police authority chairman Colin Inglis initially refused.
[3] In July 2004, he was suspended after the High Court ruled that the police authority acted "in default of its statutory duty" by that refusal.