London Mayor Sadiq Khan has more or less shown her the door.
Was he right to oust her that in a way, she was forced to resign?
That apology for a Mayor should do the decent thing and step down.
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Good riddance lets hope the next Met Commissioner is made of sterner stuff and as LongDriver say’s The Mayor should step down too
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Great! She was a disaster. She’ll beOK …. A massive pension and probably a golden handshake too.
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Don’t forget all the ‘guest speaker’ fees just for addressing a load of other self serving high rollers after the banquet🤬
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Will Cressida be replaced by another Dick, I wonder. 
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Bell-ends will abound given half a chance.
So, was she pushed? I suppose, she didn’t have a lot of choice really.
Her card was marked.
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Goodbye Dick of the Yard.
You were crap…
Bread alert!
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'ello, 'ello, ‘ello, wot’s gowin’ on 'ere, then … 
The career of Cressida Dick has seen her weather a number of storms that would have sunk many others. Allegations relating to an unholy trinity of dishonesty, prejudice and incompetence dogged the Met for almost all of her tenure.
Perhaps the most high profile of the potentially career-ending scandals was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police officer. A serving Met Police officer with a record of indecent exposure and a nickname of “the rapist”.
Dame Cressida said she “was so sorry” and remained.
After the heavy-handed way the force handled subsequent protests and vigils - in which clashes broke out between women and police officers trying to control the gathering, Dame Cressida said confidence in policing was damaged because of remarks made on social media rather than the actions of any Met officers.
Misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment throughout the ranks of the Met were uncovered in a damning report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
The force issued an apology. Dame Cressida remained.
A report into the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan - the killer remains unidentified - accused the force of institutional corruption. It found that the then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida had initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system.
She apologised and remained.
The shambolic Operation Midland which gave credibility to allegations of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech did not stop her rising through the ranks, even amid the persistent rumble of accusations against the Met of institutional racism and corruption.
She had been responsible for supervising the senior investigating officer who said allegations made by Beech were “credible and true”. Despite hearing the officer say this, and knowing it “was a mistake”, Dame Cressida admitted she had done nothing to correct it. The force had to pay compensation to a number of people whose reputations had been unfairly tarnished by Beech’s lies.
She apologised and remained.
Last September it was announced by the prime minister and home secretary that Dame Cressida’s contract - due to end in April - would be extended for another two years.
It spurred victims of police injustice to write an open letter accusing Dame Cressida of “presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up”. Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse were two of the signatories.
Obviously, Dame Cressida is not personally responsible for the wrongs committed by her officers. But she was the head of the organisation that - however unwittingly - facilitated the crimes of Wayne Couzens.
She was head of the organisation which treated sexualised, violent and discriminatory behaviour as “banter”.
Further accusations of racism came from the mother of two women murdered in a park in Wembley. Mina Smallman believes police treated the disappearance and deaths of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry less urgently than if they had been white.
She said of the investigation: “I knew instantly why they didn’t care. They didn’t care because they looked at my daughter’s address and they thought they knew who she was. A black woman who lives on a council estate.”
The disappearance of Richard Okorogheye, a teenager who was found dead two weeks after his mother reported him missing, is also subject to a review by the police watchdog, which will consider whether ethnicity played a role in the way his case was handled.
And athlete Bianca Williams and her partner believe they were racially profiled when their car was stopped by Met officers in Maida Vale, in July 2020. The couple were handcuffed and separated from their baby son. Ms Williams said she thought her family had been targeted because “we are black and we drive a Mercedes”.
The Met later apologised for any distress caused.
Dame Cressida remained.
Her track record shows a pattern of saying sorry and a refusal to relinquish her post. (1)
This time, no apologies. This time, she goes.
(1) Just like BJ … 
How she kept her job with such an appalling record is beyond me … 
Did I wale up in an alternative universe?
Yesterday the metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick, in an interview said that she is staying in her position, I wake up to see she has resigned. 
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Hi
Khan cannot fire her, only Pritti Patel as Home Secretary can.
He did say that he had no confidence in her.
She was also facing Legal Proceedings for her handling of Partygate.
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Apparently:
It is understood the police chief was called to a meeting with the mayor at 4.30pm on Thursday over the reforms but declined to attend and offered her resignation instead, catching the Home Office by surprise.
It is understood that Mr Khan did not inform the home secretary of his intention to request a meeting with the commissioner, causing an increase in tensions between the pair.
The home secretary will oversee the appointment of the new commissioner although the process requires her to consult Mr Khan when appointing Dame Cressida’s successor.
Mr Khan said he would be working “closely” with Ms Patel over the matter.
No love lost, then …
Not forgetting an unarmed civilian going about his lawful business, shot in the head seven times on the London underground by an officer under her watch.
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Indeed. In 2005, she headed the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
The mother of a man shot dead 15 years ago in a Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect has said her pain “is not over yet”.
Jean Charles de Menezes was pinned down and shot in the head by officers in Stockwell station on 22 July 2005.
Maria de Menezes told the BBC she was “still suffering”, and criticised the Met Police.
No officers were prosecuted for the killing but the Met was fined for breaching health and safety laws.
Mr de Menezes, an electrician who was 27, was followed and shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder by two police marksmen who mistook him for a suicide bomber.
In 2006, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided that no police officers should be prosecuted over Mr de Menezes’s killing, but the Met was fined £175,000 with £385,000 costs after being found guilty of endangering the public.
Overkill by incompetents …
Wow! I thought she was ‘Alright’ I had no idea…
I suppose it was to be expected when you go up against the mighty Boris…And whoever pulls his strings…
How much would you have to hate your child to call her Cressida Rose Dick? 
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I find your comments offensive, you have obviously never been in that position.
He was an illegal, not registered, matched the description, lived in the same place and ran when asked to stop.
What was the alternative?
To allow a Terrorist to detonate a suicide bomb and kill many innocents and end up with another Manchester?
Hindsight is great, on the job is not.
Never Military or Police, I could not have shot him.
I really do not like firearms, they allow idiots to kill innocents.
I would however have snapped his neck.
He was the threat, I was not, so I was going home, not him.
That is the reality of the situation.
What has this to do with Cressida Dick?
Simple, she was far too Political, made the wrong calls and got no respect from those on the Frontline.
She was so PC that she forgot to concentrate on the Victims, she concentrated on the offenders rights.
Her own staff turned against her on the Partygate thing.
They also turned against her on the Sarah Everard Protests.
Bad decisions result in consequences.