Dame Cressida Dick will continue to lead the Metropolitan Police Service until 2024, Home Secretary Priti Patel has confirmed
The two-year extension to Dame Cressida's current fixed-term appointment was granted by the Queen, the Home Office announced on Friday.
She came to public attention in 2005 while in charge of the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was wrongly identified as a potential suicide bomber. A jury later cleared her of any blame. "The Met commissioner has the most difficult policing job in the country, overseeing the safety of more than ten million people living, working and visiting our global city," the mayor of London said.
"I'd like to thank the mayor, the home secretary and the Prime Minister for the confidence they have shown in me. I am acutely aware that there are many excellent leaders in policing. The Met's commissioner has previously denied the force is institutionally racist, but has admitted it is"not free of discrimination, racism or bias".
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