It IS a welcome apology. In a letter to the campaigner Peter Tatchell, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said sorry for historic failings towards the LGBT+ community.
Sir Mark Rowley stated that, while the force had to enforce the law at the time when homosexuality was criminalised, the manner in which this was sometimes policed had “failed the community and persists in the collective memory of LGBT+ Londoners of all ages”.
