Her resignation came just hours after she said in an interview that she had no intention of quitting. In a statement, Mr Khan commended Dame Cressida for…

The Metropolitan Police could conduct spot checks on officers’ phones and social media accounts for evidence of misogyny or racism. It said there needed to be a…

Sir Steve also came in for criticism during his time in Scotland over the force’s policy on stop-and-search and for deploying armed officers on routine patrols. However,…

Rank and file police officers in the capital have declared they have no confidence in Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, following the resignation of Dame Cressida…

Ms Cooper directly criticised Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, saying that she had been “silent on policing for a year” and that “none” of the necessary reforms…

‘This country needs to decide what sort of police force it really wants and needs’ @D Buxton: “This country needs to decide what sort of police force…

Only eight per cent of both Londoners and people nationally believed she had been successful in rooting out sexism and racism in the force, compared with 51…

Data analysed by The Telegraph show that house burglaries in London increased by 31 per cent from 43,300 in 2016/17 to 56,874 in 2019 before dropping back…

Her resignation leaves a vacuum at the top of Britain’s biggest police force. The lack of an obvious candidate to take over from Dame Cressida was in…

Met Police insiders insisted on Thursday that “partygate” was too far down the track for its outcome to be influenced, and that too many officers are already…

In their time working together, Dame Cressida and Ms Patel have had a frank relationship but shared an ideology; both were horrified by the 2019 eco-protests that…

Labour sources also said Sir Keir Starmer, the party leader, had also not been informed of Dame Cressida’s departure in advance. Sir Paul Stephenson, a former Scotland…

Met Police insiders insisted on Thursday that “partygate” was too far down the track for its outcome to be influenced and that too many officers were already…

Just hours before her dramatic resignation, Dame Cressida Dick had been reassuring radio listeners that she was staying put as the head of the country’s largest police…

While Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, praised Dame Cressida, saying she had “exemplified the increasingly diverse nature of our police”.   In a statement, she said: “I’d…

Yesterday the Metropolitan Police put out a very short statement. They asked for “minimal reference” in Sue Gray’s forthcoming report on alleged parties in Downing Street to…