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[Zigenare]

Why won't anyone tell us, does Dame Cressida Dick or not?

She ticked two diversity boxes, can you guess which ones?

[Gibbon]

Google translates as : no swelling

James Brown doesn't cause you to swell? I'm sure he is pleased about that!

I'm guessing it means no bruising so the hit didn't land?

My mind went to this:

Sorry V, nice try, but no banana.

tumōrōsus (adj) = swollen, inflated, bloated
nemo = no one, nobody and actually is a contraction of the old Latin ne hemō (“no man”), hey, look no apostrophe, how did they manage?

So in the context of the above means a "bloated nobody".

[vetran]

nemo tumōrōsus

Google translates as : no swelling

James Brown doesn't cause you to swell? I'm sure he is pleased about that!

I'm guessing it means no bruising so the hit didn't land?

My mind went to this:

[malvolio]

Why won't anyone tell us, does Dame Cressida Dick or not?

She doesn't "do" she "is"...

[d000hg]

Why won't anyone tell us, does Dame Cressida Dick or not?

[SueEllen]

Oddly this appeared in my time line.

So there was no-one available to replace her in time.

However they are now looking for her replacement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60229473.amp

There was tension between the home secretary and Downing Street over whether to try to recruit a successor for Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick in the wake of the controversy over the Sarah Everard case, multiple sources have told the BBC.
Priti Patel and No 10 both had concerns about leadership at the Met, and discussed whether or not to try to find a new commissioner.

There was widespread anger over the force's handling of the case and the treatment of female protestors holding a vigil for Ms Everard, who was killed by a former Met officer Wayne Couzens.

But it's understood that both Ms Patel and Boris Johnson were unenthusiastic about the likely internal candidate, senior Met officer Neil Basu, who had previously criticised the PM's comments and was seen in No 10 as "too political", sources say.

However, the home secretary did consider going through the recruitment process where a civil service panel interviews candidates, before recommending the candidate to her.

[malvolio]

The same applies to our government, so we should not be surprised that it is not be any different for the Met.

Why? Politicians are skilled in one thing - getting elected. Competency, job knowledge or expertise in any area are not requirements.

We - or at least, most thinking people - rather expect our policemen to have rather more detailed training for the job they are paid to do. When the Met's most senior officer is concerned about "prejudicing" a summary infraction, it's clear they don't count knowledge of the law too highly. Nor common sense, come to that.

[Gibbon]

You seem to want to be treated like a child, so I'm going to pat you on the head and say "yes, darling".

But speaking to you as an adult,

nemo tumōrōsus

[Paralytic]

It says a lot for the met and the police "service" in general that there is nobody out there capable of replacing a totally out of her depth incumbent.

The same applies to our government, so we should not be surprised that it is not be any different for the Met.

[malvolio]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...t-police-chief

That was months ago.

It says a lot for the met and the police "service" in general that there is nobody out there capable of replacing a totally out of her depth incumbent.

They did look at an Aussie but he got quarantined...

[darmstadt]

Isn't the Met owned by Sadiq Khan, and always has been?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...t-police-chief

[vetran]

We should be worrying about the corrupt officers and the institutional "blind-eye" shown to some forms of crime. This is just trivial in comparison.

A good organisation should stop both. This sort of misbehaviour is obviously endemic

[d000hg]

Convenient timing this comes out just as the Met are in the public eye over #10.

[PCTNN]

and I believe many young people generally joke about rapes and knives these days.

And do you find this acceptable?

I'd be mortified and would feel like a failure if my kids did that.

[TwoWolves]

We should be worrying about the corrupt officers and the institutional "blind-eye" shown to some forms of crime. This is just trivial in comparison.