Let's accept that Cressida Dick has gone. I know she's staying for the handover and not taken her bat(on) home but in Monty Python terms, she's an ex-commissioner. One of the things about her I've already mentioned is that when she was sworn "In The Office of Constable" she would surely then have been seen as the ideal future senior officer by some of those who have most to say now (see 'Troilus' somewhere on one of these threads.) If I were to list the character requirements of a senior police officer, before the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job and the dorsal hide of a pachyderm, I'd put the leadership skills of Henry V as portrayed by the Bard (Troilus and Cressida again.) Perhaps the last was not her strongpoint.
To avoid misunderstanding I was referring to the title of the late Sir Robert Mark's autobiography:-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Office-Constab ... B002X0HCAQ
Robert Mark was referred to earlier in one of threads with some approval, and a link to a typically lazy copy-and-paste-from-wikipedia obituary. I said I wouldn't dig out my copy now but I've just done so. It's still well-worth reading on a number of levels eg not only a warts-and-all account of policing in the good old days of a clip around the ear for scrumping and "Just hand me the gun, sonny, and nobody will get hurt", but also his account of his methods in clearing out corruption which I doubt anybody would get away with today. And much more
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Here's a current example of CCTV detecting a murder but failing to prevent it. Conviction last week but sentencing today (!8 Feb) Cycling forum interest from the baddies using a pedal cycle to stake things out; being Swedes, they thought it would be inconspicuous.
Flamur Beqiri: Swedish hitman guilty of doorstep murder
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60352830
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Update on this murder
Flamur Beqiri: Hitman who murdered reality TV star’s brother in gang war jailed for life
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslond ... uxbndlbing