By David Spencer

Being Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police was once described as the second-toughest job in the country, after the Prime Minister’s.

Sir Mark Rowley has been running the Met for just over three years and today Policy Exchange assesses the progress the force has made over that time – and perhaps more importantly, what needs to happen next.

Rowley took over a force which was utterly demoralised having spent the preceding years in one form of perma-crisis or another. His predecessor, Dame Cressida Dick, was despatched in 2022 after finally losing the confidence of her political masters. During Dick’s five years in office Londoner’s confidence........

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