As Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, admits he can't sack officers who have 'committed criminality' ✒️ KatieBEdwards says it’s time to put a stop to this fairytale that the police are protectors and paragons of virtue
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, admits he can’t sack officers who have ‘committed criminality’‘How many more reports of gross misconduct and sexual assault do we have to hear before we recognise that the police force needs urgent institutional reform?’ asks Katie Edwards
At our school in Doncaster, we were led out of the classroom in single file – arms folded, fingers on lips – to sit cross-legged on the parquet flooring of the hall and watch while the TV, a tiny screen kept in a box on a wheeled stand, would be rolled out for us to see other kids about to be disfigured by fireworks or abducted by a young Duncan Preston.
. When I was a kid, the sight of a bobby was a deeply reassuring symbol of justice, safety and protection. Nothing bad could happen while one of them was around., maintained the conceit that bobbies were the finest of men. Moral, upstanding citizens, who were cherry-picked for the force. Those public safety videos served us badly on so many levels. Not least suggesting that strangers were the worst of our problems. Women and children are more likely to be harmed by people they know. And then there’s the construct of the honourable, noble policeman: beacon of truth, hope and integrity in a dark, dark world. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
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