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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

Met ‘faces impossible predicament whoever takes over from Cressida Dick’

Dame Cressida Dick and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

(Picture: PA Wire)

The crisis in the Metropolitan Police should be blamed on politicians and not senior officers, according to independent advisers to the force.

In a new twist on the events that led to the resignation of Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, three lay chairs of borough advisory groups warned that years of “political meddling” have made policing London a near-impossible job.

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