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The Latest Breaking News from Mark Rowley

Just Stop Oil protesters ‘much less assertive’ without leaders, says Met boss

Police chiefs will meet Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Thursday to discuss the demonstrations.

The Independent UK

Met launches free hotline to report corrupt and abusive police officers

Public urged to blow whistle on rogue Met police officers by calling anti-corruption hotline

Evening Standard

Met Police chief: We have 100 officers who are not trusted to speak to public

Sir Mark Rowley said it is ‘perverse’ the force cannot get rid of the officers.

The Independent UK

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Met Police chief: It’s mad I can’t axe 100 rogue officers

Around 10 per cent of the Met Police’s officers are unavailable for full duties

Evening Standard

Only 10 Met officers out of 412 investigated over alleged online abuse have been fired

Revelations that vast majority were instead given written warnings will raise fresh concerns about force

The Guardian - UK

Make it easier to sack failing officers, urges Met police chief

Mark Rowley reveals one in 10 officers are not fully deployed due to worries over their performance or health issues

The Guardian - UK

‘Big proportion’ of officers ‘not properly deployable’, says Met chief

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been head of Britain’s biggest police force since September.

Evening Standard

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Police chief says ‘big proportion’ of Met’s officers ‘not properly deployable’

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been head of Britain’s biggest police force since September.

The Independent UK

Met Police forced to change 'racist' gang list after losing High Court legal challenge

The London police force will make changes to a gangs list matrix which more than 86% of its list included people from the black and minority ethnic community.

Daily Mirror

Public sector strikes could hinder police work, says Met chief

Mark Rowley says industrial action will exacerbate health-related calls and distract from crime workload

The Guardian - UK

Strikes may hinder crime-fighting, says Met Police chief

‘If agencies we work closely with strike, it’s hard to imagine that more work won’t potentially overflow in our direction,’ Sir Mark Rowley said

Evening Standard

Met Police boss warns public sector strikes could hinder crime-fighting

Sir Mark Rowley said: ‘If agencies we work closely with strike, it’s hard to imagine that more work won’t potentially overflow in our direction.’

The Independent UK

Met Police to overhaul gang crime list after High Court challenge

Around 2,000 people are on the Gangs Violence Matrix, and 79% of them black, while in total 86.5% are from BAME backgrounds.

The Independent UK

Mina Smallman gives new Met chief ‘100 days’ to address sexism and racism

Mother of murdered sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry says unless Mark Rowley makes changes in force she is ‘coming for him’

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Evening Standard

Suella Braverman urges police to get tougher on Just Stop Oil activists

Home Secretary blasts protesters as ‘extremists’ in speech to police chiefs

The Guardian - UK

Suella Braverman tells police to get tougher on Just Stop Oil activists

Home secretary says it is officers’ duty to take a firmer line to safeguard public order

The Independent UK

Police officer injured on third day of Just Stop Oil’s M25 protests

Essex Police said there was a collision involving the motorbike rider and two lorries during a rolling roadblock.

The Independent UK

Only one in five calls to the Met are about crime, says force chief

Sir Mark Rowley said he plans to begin “pushing back” on dealing with non-police issues such as mental health callouts.

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The Independent UK

Senior officers back press freedom after journalists arrested covering protests

Officers from Hertfordshire police arrested an LBC reporter as well as a photographer and filmmaker covering action by Just Stop Oil on the M25.

The Independent UK

Three arrested in dawn drug raids by Met

The trio were detained on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.

Evening Standard

We must face the dark truth that police work attracts abusers and fix it

Women have been trying to tell us about it. But we haven’t wanted to hear.

The Independent UK

Wayne Couzens’ Met Police colleagues sentenced over ‘sickening’ WhatsApp messages

The pair were subsequently bailed by the judge following a High Court appeal into their sentence

Daily Mirror

Police refuse to reveal if officers have been sacked over damning report into vetting

The report looking into the recruitment of officers was ordered after the rape, kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021 by serving police officer Wayne Couzens.

Evening Standard

The Standard View: Sir Mark Rowley needs to get a grip on a Met in crisis

Sir Robert Peel, the founder of modern policing, once set out that “the police are the public and the public are the police”. In this way, the power of the police emanates from the common consent of the public, as opposed to the state.

Evening Standard

More than 100 accused Met Police officers are still on duty

Officers under investigation for domestic abuse claims are working as normal

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