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The police need more than a change of leadership
The internal culture won't change until officers lose the feeling of being above the law — that means prosecutions for spy cops, deaths in custody and the other obvious crimes officers are never held to account for, argues PAUL DONOVAN
Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick in 2017
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THE Metropolitan Police have never been far from the headlines recently. Met Commissioner Cressida Dick stood down after London Mayor Sadiq Khan expressed his displeasure at her performance.
There have been a series of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman, the subsequent mishandling of a peaceful demonstration concerning her death, the poor investigation and subsequent promotion of some of the officers involved concerning the Stephen Port case and the taking and circulation of pictures taken of two dead young women by police officers.
In the Port case the Met has been accused of institutional homophobia over the investigation of the murders of four men. Seventeen officers from the case were cleared of misconduct, whilst seven have been promoted.
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