Metropolitan Police in crisis

(The Independent): A succession of bungled investigations, a lack of leadership and the prospect of some of its most experienced officers facing compulsory retirement in the next year has plunged Britain’s biggest police force into one of its most turbulent periods in recent history. Already under pressure after the death of the G20 protester Ian Tomlinson and the botched investigations into two of the UK’s most prolific sex offenders, the Metropolitan Police’s list of problems increased yesterday with the revelation that only two of the six most senior positions at Scotland Yard are currently filled.

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