I find your comments offensive.
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Cressida Dick & “disgraceful” misogyny, discrimination and sex harassment among some Met PCs.NEVER!
This is the woman who has protected among others Mark Stone, a former member of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU.). This unit was not a conventional police unit, but was run by the Association of Chief Police Officers ltd. And it was the fact it was a unit run by Association of Chief Police Officers ltd that the met used, to refuse to engage with a House of Commons investigation.
The Police have to engage with house enquires, but ltd companies do not.
The (NPOIU.) was a group who investigated environmental groups & officers like Mark Stone slept with women who were members of these groups to get access to the group. Some officers are also known to have had children with protesters under assumed names. And to have given evidence in court under the assumed name. This legal experts say is perjury.
One undercover officer (Bob Lambert) is also alleged to have planted a fire bomb in Harrow Debenhams causing £340,000 worth of damage & this was the late 80’s!
All of the offences were carried out long before Cressida Dick’s time. But in her time she has prevented investigations into the officers & their conduct.
Also what about Dicks time with MI6? Her employment record says “Foreign Office.” But… When one journalist made Freedom of Information Act requests concerning her position, the Foreign Office repeatedly refused to disclose even the most basic details, such as her job title and salary. This job was taken was at the time that MI6 & it’s head of counter-terrorism, Sir Mark Allen, was being investigated by some of her former colleagues in Scotland Yard over illegal renditions & she would have certainly known & have had access to the investigation & it’s details.
Shortly after, the CPS decided not to bring any charges against MI6 & it’s head, due to a lack of evidence. Sadiq Khan said the Met had submitted “a comprehensive file of evidence” to the CPS “seeking to demonstrate that the conduct of a British official amounted to misconduct in public office”.
Cressida Dicks has a long history both with Sadiq Khan & with protecting, “misogyny, discrimination and sex harassment among some Met officers.”
Quite right too! Anyone working for any section covered loosely as ‘Foreign Office’ should expect complete silence as to which section employed them. My wife was at one time with a section of the FO and if a reference was needed a name was given to quote at the FO and they will make the appropriate liaisons etc. When our country’s security is at stake, everything has to be done to ensure it stays as secure as possible. Even if a within-service move is sought, the same procedure unfurls.
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Snipped.
All depends on ones point of view if you believe that following an innocent man and gunning him to death was a roaring success then following that, following an innocent man in the belief he was a terrorist and gunning him down must be an almighty cock up, pays your money takes your choice, obviously being made commissioner on the back of that the home office took the former.
But Cressida Dick is a serving Police Officer, not a direct employee of MI5 or the Foreign Office. Her job is as an employee of the Home Office & is in part paid for by local tax payers. Her role & that of other serving Police officers are not exempt from reasonable FOI requests. Or not unless there is something to hide.
We do not know what Cressida Dick did during that period & if it was something that compromised her later role as Commissioner of the met, or if it was in conflict with the public she served within the met’s policing area. Did she do anything that compromised her as a serving Police officer for example.
The history is. Cressida Dicks went to the Foreign Office after the Met’s then, commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, removed her from the role as deputy commissioner in charge of the Met’s counter-terrorist activities & put her in “specialist crime.” So was her move, her appointment to the Home Office etc political & would it be something relevant to those currently having issues with the Met’s conduct, or relevant to some of the misconduct we know Dick has presided over?
Secret roles in national security are fine, for MI5 etc. But a serving Police officer with something to hide in their past & who views their work as above reasonable accountability raises concerns for both their independence & suitability for that role. The Police should be both accountable to the public & independent towards enforcement & upholding of the law.
She certainly isn’t “poor Cressida Dick”. Seen what she will walk away with to her £1million home in the country?
£575,000 payout. £160,000 A YEAR pension pot funded by the taxpayer plus the chance to earn loads more if she does consultancy work etc.
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Gosh, that’s a terrific amount. No wonder she doesn’t look sad and upset!
Cressida Dick had a two-year extension to her term in office.
That decision was made by the home secretary, in consultation with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, and Downing Street.
As it was his chiding words that forced CD to resign, I think she has a very good case for Constructive Dismissal and should pursue to it the enth degree!
We the public will never know, but I do know she would have been vetted to the highest degree and anything wrong would have removed from office or prevented her entry in the first place.
Yep LongDriver, she should be in for a bonus if she gets ‘Unfair Dismissal’…
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But her role in “the Home Office” has nothing to do with vetting etc. This has to do with. Was she involved in MI5, was she involved in anything which compromised her position within the Police & did she get involved in anything, or have knowledge of anything, which would compromise her later position as commissioner?
This is about trust & her role within the Police.
Edited to add. What Cressida Dick did, or may have done, may be fine with some parts of the community. But she was a Police officer & her choices may have compromised her position with other parts of that community she allegedly serves & that matters.