Cressida Dick's resignation: What next for the Met?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The resignation of Dame Cressida Dick leaves a vacuum at the top of Britain's biggest police force. What eroded London mayor Sadiq Khan's confidence in the former commissioner? And what does it mean for the future of the Met?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:35.0 | Last week, something unexpected happened at the top of the Metropolitan Police. |
| 0:42.0 | We've just got some breaking news that she's on to, bring people listening, Dame Crested Dick, |
| 0:46.0 | who was saying at around 11 o'clock this morning that she had no intention of resigning. |
| 0:50.0 | It's now being reported that she's resigned. |
| 0:52.0 | This is allegedly after Sadik Khan, the Mayor of London, said he no longer had confidence in her leadership. |
| 1:00.0 | So what changed? |
| 1:02.0 | She's apologised for many of the sexual misconduct cases. |
| 1:06.0 | She's apologised for Wayne Cousins. |
| 1:09.0 | She's apologised for the case of Stephen Port, and her face, I think, has just become synonymous really with failings and apologies. |
| 1:19.0 | A week on from her resignation, was Crested Dick to blame for the mess at the Met. |
| 1:29.0 | Was it a case of a few rotten apples, or has the disease spread deep into the roots of policing in the UK? |
| 1:37.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm Manvian Rana. |
| 1:44.0 | Today, a crisis in policing. |
| 1:47.0 | The Times Crime and Security Editor Fiona Hamilton tells us about the rise and fall of Crested Dick. |
| 1:58.0 | Fiona, I mean, it feels like a week is a long time in policing at the moment. |
| 2:03.0 | Take us back to last Thursday evening when the news broke. |
| 2:07.0 | I mean, where were you and what did you think? |
| 2:10.0 | Well, it seemed on that day that about five or six hours was a long time in policing. |
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