Dame Cressida Dick with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in 2021 (Victoria Jones/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)In her final days as our Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick has issued a thinly veiled attack on Mayor Sadiq Khan for his handling of Scotland Yard. In an exclusive letter to London, published in today’s Standard, Dame Cressida suggests that the “current politicisation of policing is a threat not just to policing but to trust in the whole criminal justice system”.
She is right that the priority for the Met must be to protect the public, working with Londoners in pursuit of justice and support of victims. And balancing the potentially conflicting demands issued by a Labour Mayor and a Conservative Home Secretary cannot have been easy.
