Search for new London police chief after resignation

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• Media caption, Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal accuses Cressida Dick of a "sense of denial" over Met Police controversies Speaking on BBC London hours before her departure was announced, Dame Cressida insisted that she had "absolutely no intention" of quitting, and that she was "seething angry" about the culture at Charing Cross, which was exposed by the police watchdog.
• But Mr Khan said he was "not satisfied" with Dame Cressida's response to the scale of change required to "root out" racism, sexism, homophobia, bullying and misogyny in the Met.
• The partner of a man who was murdered by serial killer Stephen Port said the resignation was "about time" and that Dame Cressida was not capable of dealing with the homophobia, sexism and racism within the Met.
• Two constables were jailed for sharing photos of the murdered sisters' bodies and their mother said their disappearance would have been dealt with more urgently if they were white Dame Cressida also had to deal with the repercussions from the disastrous Operation Midland, the multimillion-pound investigation which saw detectives duped by false claims of a VIP sex abuse ring made by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech A report by an independent panel set up in 2013 into the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan accused the force of institutional corruption, and found that the then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida had initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system Before she became commissioner, she was in charge of the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by officers who mistook him for a suicide bomber MORE ON THIS STORY * * * *

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