The Latest Breaking News from Mark Rowley

Khan criticises Rowley’s refusal to describe Met as institutionally biased

Metropolitan police commissioner says ‘institutional’ label is confusing and political as fallout from Casey report continues

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2023

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has dropped ‘a real clanger’, says victim’s mother

‘I hope he will go away and re-think,’ Mina Smallman said

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2023

Met chief needs time to turn things around – but patience is in short supply

Damning report may bolster Mark Rowley’s declared mission of reform but he needs to take ‘cops on the ground’ with him

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2023

Casey review: key steps the Met police must take to address its institutional racism and sexism

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

The Conversation · Mar 21, 2023

Labour vow specialist rape units and training to tackle ‘toxic’ police culture

Specialist sexual assault units would be set up in every police force and domestic violence experts put in all 999 call centres under Labour proposals announced on Tuesday.

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2023

'The long arm of the law is lawless. How many more of these wake-up calls do we need?'

Trouble is, we’ve been here before - with the Scarman Report in 1981 and the 1999 MacPherson inquiry which famously found the Met to be institutionally racist

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2023

Suella Braverman backs Met Police chief as she rejects ‘institutional racism’ label

Home secretary previously accused police of ‘spending too much time on symbolic gestures’ on diversity

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2023

London police chief 'humbled' by withering report on force

London’s police force has lost the confidence of the people it serves because it is riven with institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia and doesn’t do enough to weed out bad officers, according to a withering report commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2023

What now for the Met?

Baroness Casey has called for a major overhaul of Britain’s biggest police force.

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2023

Read Met Police officers’ shocking testimony as force condemned as ‘institutionally racist’

Serving and former officers tell of racism, sexism and misogyny at under fire force

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2023