Rowley: Officials ‘dragging feet’ over calls for powers to sack rogue officers The head of Britain’s biggest police force blamed Home Office officials for failing to give him stronger powers to sack rogue officers.
The Home Office insisted it was “acting rapidly” to introduce new rules to help forces sack officers who could not hold vetting – an official system used to assess someone’s suitability to work for the police.
The Met began reviewing allegations against officers and staff in the wake of public outrage over Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, who committed violent sexual crimes while serving as Met officers.
The Metropolitan Police is set to challenge a High Court ruling that it cannot sack officers by removing their vetting clearance.
Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley said he had been lobbying the Government to give him a different mechanism to sack officers who were unfit to wear the uniform.
