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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Feb 10, 2022, 03:58 PM Feb 2022

Dame Cressida Dick to stand down as Met police commissioner [View all]

Dame Cressida Dick is to stand down as commissioner of the Metropolitan police after a series of scandals.

The decision follows a public falling out with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who put her “on notice” that she had to rapidly reform the Met or lose his confidence in her leadership.
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Khan’s confidence in Dick was shaken by a scandal at Charing Cross police station where officers shared racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic messages.

The London mayor was angered because of the 14 officers investigated, nine remain in the Met​. Furthermore, two were promoted from constable to sergeant, one of whom had attended a misconduct meeting.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/10/dame-cressida-dick-to-stand-down-as-met-police-commissioner

She should never have been promoted after overseeing the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes:

‘Cressida Dick should have quit 16 years ago,’ say family of Jean Charles de Menezes who police wrongly killed

The cousin of an innocent Brazilian man shot dead in London by police commanded by Cressida Dick has called for her to resign, saying that her family was “offended” when she was made Metropolitan Police commissioner.

Patricia Armani da Silva, 47, told i that she felt “very sad” that recent failings by the force had been brought to light years after her cousin Jean Charles de Menezes was killed. “My feelings about this lady are very simple,” she said. “I think she had to resign 16 years ago.”

Mr de Menezes, 27, was killed at Stockwell Tube station in south London on 22 July 2005, two weeks after the 7/7 bombings in London, in a counter-terrorism operation led by Dame Cressida.

Officers had mistaken the innocent Brazilan electrician for the terrorist Hussain Osman, who they believed lived in the same block of flats in Tulse Hill where Mrs Armani da Silva and Mr de Menezes shared an apartment with another cousin.

https://inews.co.uk/news/jean-charles-de-menezes-cousin-saying-it-for-16-years-cressida-dick-absolutely-has-to-resign-1450658

She was a literal danger to the public.
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