Should Britain’s police chiefs be able to sack rogue officers?
A change in the way misconduct hearings are run is controversial
When sir mark rowley became commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force in 2022 he knew he had to sack a lot of degenerate officers. He just wished he had the power to do so. In 2016 lawyers, known as Legally Qualified Chairs (lqc), replaced police chiefs as chairs of police-misconduct hearings. It is through such a hearing that a police officer, generally, may be sacked. The change, made to protect whistle-blowers and increase transparency, meant bosses could not, in most cases, fire rogue officers. Several police chiefs agreed with Sir Mark that they needed that power to clean up their forces.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Copping it”
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