{"id":454803,"date":"2026-03-03T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:41:07","slug":"i-understand-why-women-dont-trust-the-police-says-met-chief-on-sarah-everard-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/454803\/","title":{"rendered":"I understand why women don&#8217;t trust the police, says Met chief on Sarah Everard anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Mark became Met commissioner in September 2022, replacing Dame Cressida Dick, who resigned following a series of damaging controversies, including the Everard murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got lots of evidence that we&#8217;ve rooted out a lot of the problem from the organisation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why 1,500 people have been forced out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We haven&#8217;t got to the point where every woman is going to say &#8216;I completely, without question, trust the Met police&#8217;. This [was] a horrific incident, of course that&#8217;s going to live longer in memory. And what I&#8217;m seeking to do is say I can see that we&#8217;re making progress, and people are noticing that. But they should expect more of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to data published by the force, 28 members of staff were dismissed for sexual misconduct in 2024-25, while another 39 officers would have been sacked in the same year if they had not resigned or retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Mark became Met commissioner in September 2022, replacing Dame Cressida Dick, who resigned following a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-454803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454803","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=454803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}