Cressida Dick

The spin around Cressida Dick has never been positive unfortunately. I do hope she stays, she certainly seems defiant but if Sadiq Khan gets his claws in, it will be game over I feel.

A retired police chief has just been on the news and said if she had met the organisers in advance it would have made it official & then they would have equally been judged if the organisers were not fined £10k each. This board is supportive of the vigil (as am I) but many are not due to the COVID regs/law.

It comes back to manipulative misogyny. As usual. An opportunity was spotted to hijack a peaceful vigil, make women look bad, make the police look bad. Add in the ignorance of the press and awful reporting and there you have it.

I have a feeling that on day to day operations, the London Mayor should have been consulting with the Met but as far as I know, he just didn't.

I wondered why the News coverage suddenly stopped interviewing sisters uncut or maybe I just stopped watching. Must have sussed out pretty quickly when they were TWAW immediately they started talking.

I actually think she should have been at the vigil, properly in charge, acting as a real commander in chief. And if she had any doubts about any of the so called commanders at the scene, she should have taken control and pulled rank.

There were two groups of people there, those for Sarah, Libby and highlighting woman’s safety, the second from Reclaim the Streets, and others who turn up for anything for their social media likes, who want to defund the Police, some, not all, of those were trampling on the flowers, I believe 20 + officers were injured, again it took away from what was trying to be achieved, you could see the way it was going via Twitter, shame as myself and my daughter wanted to attend, although Covid also of course meant it was an illegal gathering.

I er on the side of her staying but I've not spent time learning about her nor know what happened, bar a lot of people invading what was to be a vigil.

It would actually feel like the ultimate slap in the face to women if she also befell the issues of male violence in this.

If she was at fault in some way then maybe, but I feel it's much wider than on just her shoulders.

It does also seem the vigil is was hijacked from footage I saw. A load of young men attacking the police! Most women had gone home. I wasn’t there but did consider going. It seemed very well policed until about 7pm when some of the more radical groups turned up.

I think she does a very hard job in very difficult circumstances. Policing is overseen by two people in London, the mayor Sadie Khan and the Home Secretary prity Patel who as you can imagine are polar opposites and demand different things of police officers all the time. It must feel like being in a gaslighting abusive relationship to Cressida sometimes pulled between two warring parents neither of whom stick to their decisions. Last week the met was being chastised for not being robust enough. She has a lot of respect from a lot of people so I think she should stay.

Said to my Ddad yesterday that she's fortunate to be a woman, it's only because we would get a male replacement that more aren't calling for her resignation.

It has come to this.

The woman who should be leaving her post is the Home Secretary, Priti Patel.

I do, however, think she could at least meet with the vigil organisers and look into what went wrong.

Nothing went wrong with the vigil, it's what happened after when it was hijacked by people with a different agenda.

I also agree with you about her being an excellent role model.

Absolutely agree with you