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He will be receiving the money for dropping racism claim against the Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
Ghaffur, who was originally seeking 1 million pounds in lieu of dropping racism charges against the police commissioner has settled for 300,000 pounds. He will also be entitled to a pension lump-sum of 522,000 pounds and an index-linked pension of 85,000 pounds a year.
A joint statement by Sir Ian and the Metropolitan Police Authority acknowledged the ‘important service’ of the police chief and ‘his significant contribution to operational policing nationally during his 34-year career’.
It said they also ‘recognised the hurt which he has felt over the past 18 months’ - but did not apologise, the ‘Telegraph’ reported.
The police chief was relieved of his duties in September after staging a televised press conference to accuse the Metropolitan police's leadership of sidelining him in favour of white officers.
The crux of his complaint was that he had been undermined by his own deputy, Richard Bryan, and Sir Ian, in his role coordinating security for the London Olympics in 2012.
Ghaffur, the third most senior officer in the Met, had compiled an allegedly damning dossier of racial discrimination going back to 2005. His claim threatened to plunge the Met into its worst race crisis in more than a decade and piled further pressure on the embattled Commissioner.
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