Met has ‘100 bad cops we cannot sack’
THE head of the Metropolitan Police says he has about 100 officers who he can neither sack nor allow to speak to the public.
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been pushing for new powers to allow forces to reopen misconduct cases and lower the bar for what constitutes gross misconduct.
But he told BBC Radio Four’s Today programme: “I have got about 100 officers in the organisation who have very restrictive conditions on them because, frankly, we don’t trust them to talk to members of the public.
“It’s completely mad that I have to employ people like that as police officers.
“We’re looking at whether we’ve got any new legal levers [to fire them]. It’s perverse, isn’t it?”