The post of Deputy Police Commissioner has been filled by Mr. Michael Mylod, second in command of the 3,000-strong Police force in the southern English county of Hampshire, Governor Lord Waddington announced yesterday.

The 56-year-old deputy chief constable since 1988, has been a policeman for 30 years. He is expected to join Police Commissioner designate Mr. Colin Coxall, assistant commissioner of the City of London Police, in office by early April.

Both men were born in Surrey.

"I am sure that Mr. Coxall and Mr. Mylod will be able to count on the support of the whole community as they work together with all the officers of the Bermuda Police to meet the challenges ahead,'' the Governor said.

Mr. Mylod's recent experience includes dealing with Police complaints, internal discipline, research, planning and finance. While a senior officer with the Devon Constabulary in the 1970s he focused on community policing and set up a schools liaison unit. His duties at the Police Training College in Exeter including teaching Commonwealth police officers.

Up until last year he was director of the Mutual Aid Coordinating Centre at New Scotland Yard which was started to deal with the national prisons dispute.

The news comes as it was claimed that the officers will receive the same pay as their predecessors but will receive housing allowances as well.

British Labour MP Mr. Bernie Grant announced yesterday he had answers to a series of Parliamentary questions fired at Foreign and Commonwealth Office junior minister Mr. Tony Baldry MP over the controversial hirings.

Mr. Grant said yesterday Mr. Baldry, who has responsibility for Bermuda in the British Government, had been "reasonably cooperative''.

But he said Mr. Baldry refused to release a copy of the 1994 Grundy report which lead to the decision to go abroad for the two top jobs in the Police Force, saying it was "confidential to the Governor and Bermuda Government''.

His answers also prompted some follow-up questions.

The Tottenham MP said he was informed the new Commissioner and his Deputy would be making the same salaries as their Bermudian counterparts, $110,000 and $88,644.

However, a sizable "ex-patriate allowance'' to be given to each of them could be "almost as much as the salary itself'', he claimed.

"That's where it gets a bit crazy,'' he said. "It covers housing, cost of a couple trips back and forth -- first class and a lot more. I plan to submit another question.'' Labour Minister the Hon. J. Irving Pearman yesterday confirmed the two commissioners were getting allowances, but he did not know exactly what they were.

He said he would today look into exactly how much money the allowances were.

However, he said, the housing allowance would be no more than 50 percent of the rental cost for a home for them and their families.

And the cost of airfare here and back -- "business'', not first class -- would be all that was covered by the taxpayer.

He added they would also get shipping costs for their belongings.

"It's (the allowance) is the same for my company if I was obliged to bring someone out to work,'' he said.

In other questions tabled in the British House of Commons Mr. Grant said he learned three of the eight short-listed candidates were flown to Bermuda for final interviews. And two were sent home.

He said Mr. Baldry, FCO Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, assured him the two posts were "open to suitable qualified candidates'' from Bermuda, the rest of the Commonwealth, the Caribbean and even Africa and priority was given to Bermudians.

Mr. Grant said as a result of that answer, he proposes to ask: "What is the difference this time round in the job between the previous commissioner and the new commissioner.'' He said he also asked: "Which positions in the Bermuda Police are reserved for expatriate whites.'' He was told there were no such positions.

Mr. Grant plans to forward the answers to his questions to the Opposition.

Last week, he told The Royal Gazette that he agreed with Progressive Labour Party leader Mr. Frederick Wade that the decision to fill the posts of commissioner and deputy commissioner with British officers was an attempt to "recolonialise Bermuda and smacked of racism''.

The decision to hire Mr. Coxall and Mr. Mylod was taken by Government and Lord Waddington in response to the imminent retirements this spring of both Commissioner Mr. Lennett Edwards and Deputy Commissioner Mr. Alex Forbes.

There was a short-term leadership "vacuum'' in the Force, Government said.

A non-Bermudian has not been brought in to head the Force since 1969.