Met chief Dame Cressida Dick left the job last week, with her deputy Sir Stephen House temporarily taking the reins until a permanent successor is appointed in the summer.
Sir Steve House (pictured) will lead the Metropolitan Police until a candidate is found to succeed Dame Cressida as commissioner, the Home Secretary said.
The new Commissioner of the Met must also show the force tough love and change its racist, sexist and homophobic culture, her past and present colleagues declared today.