Cressida Dick has shown poor judgement for much of her career, not forgetting her issuing a panicked kill order on an innocent Brazilian.
An even worse condemnation of her comes from the Met Police themselves — she is said to be ‘well liked’. In my view the leader of any organisation should never be ‘liked’, they should be well respected. Well liked implies that she is soft on internal discipline. This seems self evident given the chances to kick Couzens out for his predatory acts on females. However, it seems that other forces such as Kent also need a shake-up.
Quite frankly I have completely lost trust with the MET police. They have always had a reputation for being a corrupt force going back to the Kray twin days. If you cannot be sure that a Police Officer is not doing something for personal gain or gratification, then the MET police have sunk even lower than the Kray Twin days.
The current pretty stupid MET advice to ‘challenge’ a plain clothes officer is wrong and is only likely to result in false charges of resisting arrest. I think the advice should now be to take a photo of any MET officer and their warrant card and send it to a friend or lawyer. If the Officer will not cooperate then that should be sufficient grounds for resisting arrest.
There are times when a public example has to be made of an incompetent leader. Dick should be stripped of her honours and thrown out of the Police Force.
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