Sir Mark Rowley was appointed Metropolitan Police commissioner in July 2022, right at the end of Boris Johnson’s time as Prime Minister. In March 2023, Louise Casey’s scathing review of the Met’s standards and culture, commissioned before Rowley’s appointment, was published.
At the start of this year, the Met was released from the “enhanced monitoring” of inspectors, but Panorama’s investigation of Charing Cross police station showed there was still a lot of work to do.
Meanwhile, despite some encouraging recent statistics, the populist Right continues to portray the capital as “lawless” as a key part of its wider political strategy.
Is the Met improving? Is Rowley’s leadership helping?
In my latest True London podcast, Marina Ahmad, London Assembly member for Lambeth & Southwark and chair of the Assembly’s police and crime committee, gave me some answers to those questions and more.
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