{"id":371508,"date":"2026-01-15T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371508\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:47:08","slug":"no-10-no-longer-has-confidence-in-west-midlands-police-boss-as-pressure-builds-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371508\/","title":{"rendered":"No 10 ‘no longer has confidence’ in West Midlands Police boss as pressure builds to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Midlands Police will carry on as usual without ‘fear or favour’, says internal memopublished at 13:00 GMT<\/p>\n

13:00 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Phil Mackie
Midlands Correspondent<\/p>\n

The BBC has seen a copy of an internal briefing which was sent to staff and officers last night. <\/p>\n

Its message was clear \u2013 the force will carry on as usual and do so without \u201cfear or favour\u201d. <\/p>\n

It added it was continuing to support the investigation by Sir Andy Cooke, the HMICFRS, whose interim letter prompted the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to say she no longer had confidence in the Chief Constable. <\/p>\n

It acknowledged mistakes had been made and apologised for their impact. The briefing also reiterated the force\u2019s contention that there had been \u201cno intent of deliberate distortion or discrimination\u201d.<\/p>\n

It also set out suggested responses to questions the public might ask. <\/p>\n

To the question \u201cdo you think the Chief Constable should be sacked?\u201d it said \u201cIt would be inappropriate and unprofessional to discuss the future of anyone within the organisation. Our focus is on doing everything possible to protect the West Midlands and prevent crime.\u201d <\/p>\n

After allegations that senior officers had failed to speak to the Jewish community, and had pandered to pro-Palestinian Muslim hardliners, it pointedly added: \u201cWe are committed to serving our diverse communities equally, regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, faith, age, or gender\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police will carry on as usual without ‘fear or favour’, says internal memopublished at 13:00 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-371508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}