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Who would want to be Metropolitan Police Commissioner? Dame Cressida Dick’s career hangs in the balance – but it s worth noting she s the fourth commissioner in a little over a decade 15 March 2021 • 7:15pm Dame Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is pictured walking to New Scotland Yard following calls for her resignation Credit: Ben Cawthra/LNP Who would be Metropolitan Police Commissioner? Although the highest ranking, most senior officer in the country –with a £270,000 salary to boot – it is a job that comes with perils and hazards. And plenty of them. As Dame Cressida Dick clung on to her job on Monday night, she could be forgiven for wondering how it came to pass that the most switched on officer of her generation, and the first female commissioner in history, could have come unstuck. ....
Priti Patel yesterday came under pressure from a Cabinet colleague to order an independent inquiry into alleged misconduct and criminality in Scotland Yard s disastrous VIP child sex abuse probe. ....
Priti Patel is under growing pressure to order an inquiry into the ‘Nick’ scandal after a former home secretary branded a watchdog probe as ‘botched’. Michael Howard was one of six former home secretaries who yesterday signed a joint letter demanding a fresh investigation into Scotland Yard’s shambolic VIP inquiry and the subsequent probe that cleared five detectives. In the unprecedented intervention, they said confidence in the police has been seriously damaged by the handling of false claims of an Establishment paedophile ring. They urged Home Secretary Miss Patel to establish a new independent probe into Operation Midland. Priti Patel (pictured) is under growing pressure to order an inquiry into the ‘Nick’ scandal after a former home secretary branded a watchdog probe as ‘botched’ ....
Share Writing to The Times today, three former Tory home secretaries – Lord Baker, Lord Clarke and Lord Howard – and three ex-Labour ones – Jack Straw, Lord Blunkett and Lord Reid of Cardowan – say they are acutely conscious of the need to maintain public confidence in the police . They say they agree with Sir Richard Henriques, the retired High Court judge who wrote a scathing report into Operation Midland, that confidence in the police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has been seriously damaged . They wrote: We concur with Sir Richard s view that confidence in the police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct has been seriously damaged and endorse his call and that of the former chief magistrate for an independent investigation. We urge the home secretary to establish it. ....
Scotland Yard s failure to investigate two alleged fantasists who came forward to support liar and paedophile Carl Beech over bogus claims of VIP sex abuse will now be examined by Merseyside Police. The force will investigate why the Metropolitan Police did not take action against the two men despite Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, who was then in charge, concluding they were deliberate liars . The pair, known only as A and B, went to police in September 2015 claiming they could back up Beech s false claims that a VIP paedophile ring had abused and murdered boys in the 1970s and 1980s. ....