Sir Mark Rowley: I’ll rid Met of hundreds of rogue officers as soon as I can
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Hundreds of police officers in London will be sacked as unfit to serve the public if the Home Office changes the law to give Scotland Yard the power to dismiss them, the Met Commissioner said today.Sir Mark Rowley told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee he was “already suspending and sacking more officers” in an attempt to clean up his force in the wake of the scandals which triggered the departure of predecessor Dame Cressida Dick.But he said the role of independent legal professionals in chairing disciplinary panels was preventing him from dismissing racist, misogynist or corrupt officers. Sir Mark said he believed Home Secretary Suella Braverman was alert to the problem and he would deepen his purge as soon as legal changes were made to give his force the final say in who should be sacked.
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