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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lizzie Dearden

New Met Police commissioner vows to be ‘ruthless’ in rooting out racist and misogynistic officers OLD REDIRECTED

PA Wire

The new Metropolitan Police commissioner has vowed to be “ruthless” in rooting out racists and misogynists from the force’s ranks.

Sir Mark Rowley refused to say whether he thought Britain’s largest force was institutionally racist, but admitted it has a “real problem with race”.

Speaking to journalists at New Scotland Yard on Tuesday, he said he was “not interested in using labels that have been kicked around by different people to mean different things”.

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