Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick
A landmark panel of victims of police corruption, incompetence and malpractice today call for the head of Cressida Dick.
In a bombshell open letter to Boris Johnson, they said the disaster-prone Met commissioner should not be handed a two-year contract extension as expected.
Led by Stephen Lawrence’s trailblazing mother, Baroness Lawrence, and Lady Brittan, widow of Tory home secretary Leon Brittan, the signatories all give Dame Cressida a resounding vote of no confidence.
They also demand an overhaul of the Met’s senior team, ‘urgent and long overdue’ reform of the police complaints system and a shake-up of the ‘unfit for purpose’ Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Here, we reveal their letter to the Prime Minister...
We write to you as a group of concerned individuals seeking urgent and long overdue reform of policing, the police complaints system and, in particular, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
Our stories and individual experiences are very different but we have all been victims of the incompetence and malpractice which pervades the leadership of the MPS.
This includes racial discrimination, systemic corruption and the reckless and unjustified harassment of innocent people.
After decades of equivocation and inertia, we are calling for immediate and decisive action from your administration.
We have – reluctantly – become public figures as a result of our experiences but we are determined to use our voice to push for reform.
This is the only way to restore confidence in our capital's police service, and to ensure that these injustices cannot be repeated.
First, there must be accountability.
After decades of investigation and numerous
