So much energy is consumed following the Metropolitan Police and its many inquiries, reviews and staff legal troubles that it is sometimes possible to forget that it is, at its core, a police force with no more important job than to protect Londoners. But according to the commissioners, Scotland Yard faces a financial crisis.
Sir Mark Rowley today warned of “eye-watering cuts to the services we provide to London” as the force is hit by a brewing financial crisis. The Met chief blamed not just the recent Budget or spending this year, but the “cumulative effect of decisions over the last decade or so which have put us in a more and more precarious position.”
