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Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley calls on Government to give police power to sack ‘rogue’ officers

Sir Mark said the current system is too slow and he cannot appeal against ‘unduly lenient decisions’.

Evening Standard

Met Police Commissioner says reform is needed to sack ‘rogue’ officers

Sir Mark said the current system is too slow and he cannot appeal against ‘unduly lenient decisions’.

The Independent UK

Almost two-fifths of robberies in London are of mobile phones

Mayor of London and Met Police chief urge phone companies to ‘design out’ theft

Evening Standard

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Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones

London mayor and Met police commissioner say manufacturers must make phones less attractive to thieves

The Guardian - UK

Mobile phone industry urged to ‘design out’ their appeal to thieves

London mayor Sadiq Khan and Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley have called on the mobile industry to help cut thefts of phones.

The Independent UK

Met chief ‘must stop county line dealers luring pupils with vapes’

Criminals are recruiting young people at the school gates, says Damilola Taylor’s father

Evening Standard

Racial justice groups write to Met police chief with concerns on overhaul plan

Plans to overhaul the force, a £366 million two-year scheme dubbed A New Met for London, were launched last week.

The Independent UK

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Government backs reduction in police response to mental health incidents despite safety warnings

Minister claims 1 million policing hours could be saved a year, but coroner sounds alarm after woman’s suicide

The Independent UK

Ministers tell police to respond to fewer mental health-related 999 calls

Plan aims to free up estimated million hours a year of police time but experts have raised concerns

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Morgan murder: Met apologises for ‘corruption’ in unsolved case

The Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan, admitting liability for an unsolved case “marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness”.

The Week

After 36 years the Met has apologised for failings in the Daniel Morgan murder case. Now it must change

The campaign for justice has faced denials and corruption. The commissioner must translate the force’s contrition into action, says Raju Bhatt, the solicitor for Daniel Morgan’s family

The Guardian - UK

Met Police Commissioner says he has not ‘shirked’ from Baroness Casey report

Sir Mark Rowley said the Metropolitan Police is ‘on a big reform plan’ following the Baroness Casey report, published in March.

The Independent UK

Daniel Morgan murder: Met had little choice but to admit failings

Scotland Yard apology and payment of damages averts prospect of hugely embarrassing civil trial

The Guardian - UK

Met has ‘so much further to go’ in tackling racism and misogyny in force, says mum of murdered sisters

Mina Smallman, whose daughters were murdered in a Wembley park in 2020, says good and bad policing should be highlighted

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The Independent UK

Daniel Morgan murder investigation marred by corruption, police chief admits

The 37-year-old was killed with an axe in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, south-east London, in March 1987. His attacker has never been caught.

The Independent UK

Daniel Morgan: Met apologises and agrees to pay damages to family of murdered private investigator

Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley ‘unequivocally and unreservedly’ apologises for failures

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Morgan murder: Met admits failings and pays damages in settlement with family

Force had faced being sued over 1987 axe killing, with corruption and errors blamed for failure to convict perpetrators

The Independent UK

Met police have ‘much further to go’ in rooting out racism and misogyny, says mother of murdered sisters

Former Met constables jailed for sharing photographs of the women’s bodies on WhatsApp

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The Independent UK

Met has ‘so much further to go’ in tackling racism and misogyny in force

The UK’s biggest police force was placed in special measures in June 2022.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Met Police’s improvement plan is ‘important step on road to reform’

The £366m, two-year plan on Tuesday won priase from Labour, Conservative, Green and Liberal Democrat politicians at City Hall

The Independent UK

Met chief says it is ‘a little perverse’ that he cannot fire bad officers

Sir Mark Rowley said it was ‘weird’ that he is unable to choose who works under him.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Justice in rape cases is not just about policing

OF COURSE it is welcome that the Met Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, is to take a more robust approach to rape and sex offences. He is to publish a map of “hotspots” for women and girls and to use a common sense technique — the Cambridge Harm Index, which measures…

Evening Standard

Met Police chief Mark Rowley slams Home Office for dragging heels over police dismissal reforms

‘We’re an organisation in a hurry to build the trust of Londoners, and I’d like that support as quickly as possible,’ said Sir Mark

Evening Standard

‘Hotspots map’ to tackle violence against women across London

Sir Mark Rowley also apologised for earlier failings that had ‘dented trust in the Met’

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer suggests two-child benefit cap row is example of what taking ‘tough choices’ involves – as it happened

Labour leader says party is having row about ‘touch choices’ at the moment during speech at thinktank run by Tony Blair

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