
The news doesn’t get better for the Metropolitan Police, and the people it is supposed to serve. The force has been placed in ‘special measures’ by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).
The police watchdog unearthed “systemic failings” in routine policing, such as the inability to record the reason for a quarter of stop-and-search operations and the failure to log, wait for it, 69,000 crimes a year.