Cressida Dick may very well be ousted inside days if she doesn't sort out 'shattered' confidence in Scotland Yard, Sadiq Khan mentioned yesterday as he put her 'on notice'.
The London Mayor delivered a brutal ultimatum to the beleaguered Metropolitan Police commissioner, warning that she has simply 'days or weeks' to save lots of her job by arising with a plan to wash up a poisonous 'culture' within the pressure.
His damning indictment of Britain's most senior police officer raises the prospect she may very well be compelled out of the function in the identical means as Sir Ian Blair was quickly after Boris Johnson turned London mayor.
Lord Blair was compelled to stop following a damning inquest into the deadly taking pictures of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistaken for a terrorist in 2005.
Dame Cressida was the gold commander within the management room through the operation that led to Mr de Menezes' loss of life.
Residence Workplace sources mentioned yesterday the commissioner's place can be 'untenable' with out Mr Khan's backing.
Dame Cressida has come below mounting stress following a string of scandals - from the kidnap and homicide of Sarah Everard by a serving officer, to the revelation that 14 officers at Charing Cross police station shared sickening jokes about rape, home violence, the Holocaust and killing black youngsters.
Mr Khan mentioned he was 'disgusted' that 9 out of the 14 officers uncovered by the police watchdog final week had been nonetheless of their posts and two had even been promoted.
He believes the culprits ought to have been sacked and steered Dame Cressida's failure to sort out the issue throughout a 90-minute dialogue final week had left her profession hanging within the stability.
The mayor mentioned the blunders had been 'not historic or isolated' and should be tackled now: 'What we have seen too often are examples of racism, misogyny, sexism, discrimination and the like.
Debacles that shook the Yard on her watch
'I have been quite clear to the commissioner: my expectation is the next time I see her I want to see what her response is to the examples not of one officer, of 14 officers being involved in racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and the like behaviour, nine of whom are still serving.
'Secondly, what her plans are to win back the trust and confidence that's been each been knocked and shattered as a consequence.'
When requested if Dame Cressida nonetheless had his belief, Mr Khan mentioned: 'That will be contingent upon the response from the commissioner the next time I see her.
'If it is the case that I no longer have trust and confidence in anybody who works for me, I'll make that fairly clear and take motion.'
He added: 'I'm not any individual who is definitely disgusted or somebody who will get indignant simply. I'm each disgusted and indignant at what we now have seen over the past two weeks.'
Residence Workplace sources mentioned Mr Khan seemed to be 'rolling the pitch' for withdrawing assist for Dame Cressida later this month.
One mentioned: 'Sadiq Khan is the police and crime commissioner for London. If he says he has no confidence in her... her position is untenable.'
Dame Cressida's contract was given a two-year extension solely final September, with Mr Khan saying on the time: 'This will provide the experienced and strong leadership we need as our city emerges from the pandemic.'
Susan Corridor, chairman of the London Meeting's police and crime committee mentioned: 'Sadiq Khan knew about all of these scandals when he signed off on her contract a few weeks ago.
'He knows he is in trouble so he is trying to deflect some of that heat.'
