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Met chief: we’ve been ‘too permissive’ about police with criminal records

Mark Rowley says he was shocked by officers’ offences and law needs to make it easier to dismiss people from force

The Guardian - UK

‘How on earth did they get through?’ Met Police vetting under fire over offender officers

Rules around getting rid of unfit officers ‘crazy’, admits Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley

The Independent UK

Mark Rowley aims to reform the Met on the scale of Robert Mark in the 1970s

The London police commissioner faces a battle to clean up a force where the same cultures tackled by his predecessor ‘are alive and well’

The Guardian - UK

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Commissioner vows to clean up Met as force faces biggest crisis since 1970s

Sir Mark Rowley vows to ‘lift the stone’ – but says rooting out every unfit police officer could take years

The Guardian - UK

Four out of five investigations into officers need to be reassessed, says Met Chief

Met Police chief urged Londoners to back his bid to root out hundreds of rogue officers who had riddled the force like ‘cancer’

Evening Standard

Met officers moved from serious crime squads to investigate internal standards

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley set out a series of measures being taken to ‘remove the cancer from the body’ of the force.

The Independent UK

Australia may inadvertently fuel cyber crime, says data theft victim service

An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of online data theft, saying it would spur compromised companies to pay ransom and invite more hacking.

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Home Secretary not considering breaking up Met after damning Casey review

Suella Braverman said no one is shying away from the ‘big challenges’ that the Met faces.

The Independent UK

Sir Mark Rowley: New ‘psychological tools’ could weed out malicious police recruits

The Met Commissioner said the police force was ‘tightening up’ its vetting processes for new and existing officers

Evening Standard

Police ‘cannot be trusted’ with power to strip-search children, London politician says

London mayor Sadiq Khan said there remained ‘very exceptional circumstances’ where the strip-searching of children should occur

Evening Standard

Baroness Casey warns of ‘tragedy’ for victims and London if Met fails to reform

Sir Mark Rowley has rejected an offer to check yearly on progress in implementing change at under fire force

Evening Standard

Accepting term ‘institutional’ would help move things on – Baroness Casey

The issue was discussed during a debate on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday night.

The Independent UK

The Observer view on the serial failings of the Metropolitan police

The force’s leadership must act on the findings of Louise Casey’s review and rebuild its trust with the public

The Guardian - UK

Met chief may have ‘missed his moment’ to overhaul force, says Louise Casey

Author of damning report criticises Sir Mark Rowley over refusal to acknowledge institutional racism, sexism and homophobia

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Metropolitan police chiefs must face up to institutional failings

Letters: Readers criticise the response of senior officers to a damning report on racism, homophobia and misogyny in the Met

The Independent UK

Met Police commissioner privately admits force is institutionally racist despite public denials, Labour claims

Two Labour MPs told said that commissioner Rowley had agreed there was an issue with institutional racism in the force in previous meetings

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Lawrence’s father says lack of change in Met disrespects family’s loss

Dr Neville Lawrence says he does not believe force will reform, even after Casey report found it guilty of institutional racism

Evening Standard

OPINION - I now think Rishi Sunak is going to win the next election

Predicting the future in politics is a notoriously foolish endeavour. So at a dinner on Monday when asked about the next election by an erudite CEO, I took a large swig of red wine before replying. In my humble opinion, I said, Rishi Sunak was going to swing it, before…

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Evening Standard

Met Police officers slammed for spending on iPads and custom jackets

A group of officers in the Met Police has been criticised for spending public money on items like iPads, personalised jackets, and tomahawk axes.

The Guardian - UK

Scrapping the Met isn’t enough. There are radical – and proven – alternatives

Only a small proportion of rape, burglary and violent crimes are actually solved by the police, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Daily Mirror

'Response from Met chief to Casey report shows that nothing is going to change'

The 363-page document made for sickening reading. What took my breath away was the casual, everyday behaviour considered normal

Daily Mirror

Met Police chief told to honour Stephen Lawrence and accept force is 'institutionally racist'

Baroness Louise Casey's damning report found 'institutional racism, sexism and homophobia' in the Metropolitan Police - but Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley rejected the 'ambiguous' term

The Guardian - UK

Louise Casey accuses Met police chief of ‘hollow’ reasoning on failings

Sir Mark Rowley’s refusal to admit Met police ‘institutionally’ racist, misogynistic and homophobic draws further criticism

Evening Standard

Met chief Sir Mark Rowley again refuses to use ‘institutional’ to describe police’s problems

Sir Mark Rowley said the word had an “ambiguous” set of meetings, as well as being politically contentious

Evening Standard

‘Several hundred’ officers could be removed from Met after damning report

Baroness Casey said she expected “several hundred” officers to be removed from the Met Police, following her damning report into the organisation’s culture

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