Cressida Dick appointed as first female Met Police chief

Cressida Dick

Our thanks to Stuart and others for this. Key extracts:

Cressida Dick is the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the first woman to take charge of London’s police force.

She succeeds Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, who led the force from 2011 until announcing his retirement last year.

Ms Dick, [note, not Mrs or Miss, and there are no details of her marital status on her Wikipedia page] previously the national policing lead on counter-terrorism, said she was “thrilled and humbled”.

But her appointment was criticised by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was wrongly shot dead during an operation she led in 2005.

The Brazilian electrician was killed two weeks after the 7/7 London Bombings when he was mistakenly identified as a terror suspect.

A jury later found the Met had broken health and safety laws, but found there was “no personal culpability for Commander Cressida Dick”. [How can that be? Was it just the customary gynocentric failure to hold women accountable for their failures, or the failures of those under their control?]…

Her appointment means that for the first time all three top policing jobs in the UK are held by women: the Met commissioner, the head of the National Crime Agency and the president of the National Police Chief’s Council.

Ms Dick’s statement said: “This is a great responsibility and an amazing opportunity.

“I’m looking forward immensely to protecting and serving the people of London and working again with the fabulous women and men [my emphasis] of the Met.

The head of the Crown Prosecution Service, the Justice secretary, the Home secretary, and the holders of all three top policing jobs in the UK are feminists. Basically, that’s the criminal justice system in feminist hands. Things are going to get even worse for men in the UK. Much worse.

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17 thoughts on “Cressida Dick appointed as first female Met Police chief

  1. Just to clarify, all emergency services in London are now run by women. Dany Cotton runs the fire service and Dr Fionna Moore runs the ambulance service though she is leaving soon. Perhaps in the interest of fairness, Dr Moore could be replaced by a man?

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  2. I was at university with her, so I’m probably biased in being quite pleased to see her doing well. It would be wrong, I think, to use the de Menezes incident against her. My only experience of the Met was of extraordinary incompetence, so I hope she does a much better job than the dreadful Hogan-Howe. And her haircut is probably an indication of her marital status, not that it’s relevant!

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    • ‘ … so I’m probably biased in being quite pleased to see her doing well.

      What do you mean by ‘doing well’? She’s undoubtedly doing well in the sense of getting to the top but is she getting there because she’s doing her job well? The de Menezes affair suggests not.

      Her haircut indicates that she’s not likely to be well disposed towards the men under her command and her inversion of the traditional order of the sexes when referring to both in the same context rather confirms that possibility.

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  3. Wouldn’t it have ticked more boxes if they’d appointed the first black one-legged lesbian to run the Met? Seriously, I feel sorry for her. The first reaction to any woman being appointed to a top job these days is to wonder whether she got it on merit or simply because of her gender.

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  4. Can anyone confirm how much times she spent as a police constable. The news didn’t go into detail but the impression I got was that it wasn’t long. The BBC were doing the old ’empowered woman’ crap, saying “quickly, she left the male police constables behind’.

    From what I’ve seen of female police constables, I reckon she was put into administrative roles because she wasn’t suited to real police work.

    I remember my father telling me that one of my cousins became a police constable and she lasted a year before she jacked it all in. Too dangerous. Too much stress.

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  5. Apart from Nigel Farage, which British politician is the closest thing to Donald Trump? That would be the one who needs to run The UK, The EU (or what’s left of it.) or any other western nation at this point in time. The politically correct status quo has simply become a tragic comedy, becoming ever more surreal.

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      • Easily confused with Moby Dick I think which although noticably larger, required rather less in the way of inventive fabrication, and MUCH less suspension of disbelief to accept as a real and credible candidate for the position in question.

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