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Nick Bowes

OPINION - Reforming the Met cannot become a political football

Londoners face a steady stream of Met Police horror stories — violence, misogyny, racism and homophobia among serving officers. In David Carrick and Wayne Couzens, uniformed police committed acts of sexual violence and even murder. Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has warned that more scandals are yet to emerge.

Reform is desperately needed. Rowley is certainly saying the right things, unlike his predecessor Dame Cressida Dick. But how actually to change?

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