Met chief has £500k payoff cut by a third
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