Dame Cressida Dick “didn’t understand the scale of the change required” in the Metropolitan Police, Sadiq Khan has told LBC.
The Mayor denied reports he issued an ultimatum to Dame Cressida to sack the Charing Cross officers or to be sacked, adding: “The plans in [her] letter weren’t enough, then before we could meet last Thursday the Commissioner resigned.”
Mr Khan insisted he was “more than happy” to speak to the chairman of the Police Federation, which withdrew its support for Mr Khan’s leadership on Monday.
While there were “thousands of dedicated, decent police officers”, Mr Khan maintained: “You should be really upset, angry [and] disgusted by a culture in the words of the IOPC that is not isolated.
“I think if you talk about ‘wrong ‘uns’, or a few ‘rotten apples’, you don’t understand what the IOPC highlighted. The current leadership clearly doesn’t have a plan to address the cultural issues. You acknowledge there is a serious issue, you plan to address the serious issue and three you implement the plan.”
