Dame Cressida Rose Dick (What do we know)

[thirdcrank]

Thanks for that.

I think that some of the departures were planned some time ago. In particular, AFAIK, Stephen House never applied to succeed Cressida Dick, in particular it's 40+ years since he joined the police (although his service was broken.)

You are right there's been a lot of discussion about the need for structural change but - unless I missed it - when I asked for suggestions on here, there was only silence. Nobody seemed prepared to stick their neck out. As I type this I've remembered that somewhere on this thread or another, I linked to the report of Stephen House's evidence to the Home Affairs Committee suggesting IIRC it was worth reading but nobody saw anything worthy of discussion.

Unless he intends to take a much more prominent stance than any Commissioner in recent history, Mark Rowley is on a hiding to nothing, with changes needed completely beyond his authority to introduce.

As has already been posted (IIRC) he's responsible both to the home secretary, whoever that may be in due course, and to an unclear extent to the Mayor of London, except that the Police and Crime Commissioner for the MPD is one of his deputies. And they answer in some shape or another to another committee. These people tend to be short of plans beyond their own political ambition.
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PS

I see the Daily Telegraph is going with its own version of this today

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... ida-dicks/

The main story in there seems to be that Mark Rowley wants Lucy D'Orsi as his deputy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_D%27Orsi
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PPS How wrong can you be?

It seems it's going to Lynne Owens, who retired on health grounds from her post as top dog at the National Crime Agency last September.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62481836

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Cressida Dick: Sadiq Khan wrongly ousted Met chief - report

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62766240

[Jdsk]

The report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ity-review

The Home Office response:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inde ... -published

The MPS statement:
https://news.met.police.uk/news/mps-res ... ick-453241

Total chaos. And I'd guess that it isn't over yet.

Jonathan

[thirdcrank]

I presume the Mark Rowley + Lynne Owens selection was intended to facilitate the separation of the Met's national and local responsibilities. (It's hard to see any other reason for bringing back the latter after her ill-health retirement.)

A new Home Secretary may have a different agenda.

[Jdsk]

Casey's interim findings and letter:
https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces ... ey-review/`
https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets ... ssible.pdf

And the Commissioner's response:
https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets ... -casey.pdf
includes:

Jonathan

[mumbojumbo]

Seems like Dame Dick did little to dispel the rumours about detectives doing deeds deemed dysfunctional.

[thirdcrank]

Cressida Dick: Sadiq Khan and Sir Tom Winsor clash over Met chief's exit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63648551
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This could run like a Duracell rabbit

Cressida Dick resignation: Mayor's media briefing described as childish

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63958180

[Jdsk]

Dick's severance:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -met-chief

Jonathan