Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: Resignations

(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the report by Sir Thomas Winsor entitled Special commission on the resignation of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, published on 2 September 2022.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 20th September 2022

Sir Tom presented his report to the Home Office on 24 August 2022 and, given the public interest in the matter, the Home Secretary decided to publish the report in full on gov.uk on 2 September.

In the report, Sir Tom states that he believes due process was not followed by the Mayor of London and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the actions they took which led, on 10 February 2022, to Dame Cressida Dick stepping aside as Commissioner.

A number of recommendations for how accountability arrangements in London can be improved were also given. The Government is already taking steps to strengthen the accountability and transparency of police governance through the delivery of recommendations from the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Review. We will continue to deliver recommendations from the PCC Review, including legislating where necessary and when parliamentary time allows.

The Home Office will consider all of the findings Sir Tom has laid out and will bring forward any further changes once the findings and recommendations have been fully considered.

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