Reply to: No more Dick

[SueEllen]

So Khan told Dick to sack all the Charing Cross officers and she resigned instead.

[vetran]

Accept no substitutes!

[ladymuck]

Let the fighting begin -
https://news.sky.com/story/cressida-...-khan-12541947



Where have the grown ups gone?

[SueEllen]

He didn't like that the staff on the force were racist, homophobic, sexist but was fine that they gave thieves and murderers a cup of tea and a hug.

Let the fighting begin -
https://news.sky.com/story/cressida-...-khan-12541947

Accusing politicians of using "policing and the career of the country's most senior police leader to deflect from their own failings", Mr Marsh said: "This is not a move we take lightly.

Where have the grown ups gone?

[ladymuck]

He didn't like that the staff on the force were racist, homophobic, sexist but was fine that they gave thieves and murderers a cup of tea and a hug.

[NigelJK]

From what the rumours are, it was Khan who suggested that the Met should concentrate more on LGBT+ issues and the like. I think she was more inclined to tackle the the more traditional role of nicking criminals.

[NotAllThere]

Reminds me of the parody that Rory Bremner did of Tony Blair adapting the US president's speech to fit the UK, replacing Brown with Chaney.

"If anything happens to me, people need to know that Dick will replace me". Became "If anything happens to me, people need to know that dick, will replace me".

[d000hg]

Well most of the criminals in London are from abroad so it makes sense</BR14>

[SueEllen]

Apparently Red anti-Semitic Ken Livingston was looking outside the UK for the head of the Met.

[malvolio]

They will last long then.....


They probably need to look outside London or abroad.

What they need is another Robert Mark, back in the 70s, who transformed the Met from the Sweeney model to the Line of Duty one. Since the high level policemen forming the likely candidates date from the late 90s or thereabouts and have come up from graduate intake with not a lot of practical policing, I don't think they'll have any Robert Marks to choose from. Looking outside, so Oz or Canada would be sensible options, will probably be the best bet if they want to reform the culture.

Then again, over the last 15 years they have instigated a lot of reforms. That's why protestors causing havoc get offered cups of tea and people trying to get past them for work get prosecuted, and why they protect their own even when that's putting the public at serious risk.

What they ought to try is to keep a purely political commissioner to look after the interaction with the government (local and national) and finances, and have a proper copper in charge of operations. What they can't do is repeat what has already been tried.

[SueEllen]

Currently the two front runners appear to be her two deputies...

They will last long then.....

Let's hope some sense applies and they go looking for a policeman. The emphasis has to be a return to policing values rather than socio-political ones!

They probably need to look outside London or abroad.

[malvolio]

Currently the two front runners appear to be her two deputies...

Let's hope some sense applies and they go looking for a policeman. The emphasis has to be a return to policing values rather than socio-political ones!

[vetran]

Public disgust as Khan forces Dick out

[vetran]

Is The Met going to get a new Dick Head?

[vetran]

Ermm....

You may have noticed that he will have expert help in that task. Apparently she's an ex-Commissioner of the Met who is at a loose end and who said three hours before announcing her retirement, and after the meeting where she was told that Kahn was not her greatest fan, that she is not retiring...

And that it will be a political appointment, not a policing one...

You may even get Hogan-Howe back again as a result.

Sadly I know, maybe we can hire a drug dealer to do it?