The Latest Breaking News from Mark Rowley

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 · Jul 19, 2023

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 · Jul 19, 2023

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

Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2023

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.

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

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

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2023

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.

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

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 · Jul 18, 2023

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 · Jul 18, 2023

‘Hotspots map’ to tackle violence against women across London

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

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2023