The Mail on Sunday

Met chief has £500k payoff cut by a third

- By Jake Ryan

DAME Cressida Dick is to pocket only a third of the £500,000 golden handshake she could have had on her departure from Scotland Yard.

The Metropolit­an Police Commission­er, whose last working day will be next Sunday, will receive £165,727 – six months’ notice plus two months’ salary.

She signed a two-year extension to her £246,000-a-year role last September that would have taken her up to April 2024.

But a bust-up with London Mayor Sadiq Khan after the force was hit by a series of scandals sparked her resignatio­n in February.

Mr Khan, who has said the Met is facing ‘deep cultural issues’, is understood to have resisted paying the full settlement of nearly £500,000 after stressing Dame Cressida had resigned and was not sacked.

Allies of the Commission­er and the Met’s Police Federation representi­ng rank-and-file officers

 ?? ?? FINAL WEEK: Dame Cressida Dick’s last working day will be next Sunday
FINAL WEEK: Dame Cressida Dick’s last working day will be next Sunday

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