They so often get it wrong. As much as I though they were w******* the way they dealt with anti lockdown / vaccine protesters on the common was bonkers.
They've completely lost all ability to ascertain what is a threat or isn't. They've long ceased to serve the people. Cynically they will wave...
Once broke down in South London (embarrassing) and a kindly couple of Police Officers drove us to a garage to buy jump leads. They help us start our car.
Unfortunately on the journey they referred to locals as "f***ing p****" to us, seemingly oblivious to us that we might just find that...
Politely questioned an "operation" (they just luvvvvvvve a PR exercise) where the Met in conjunction with the military (yes really) were stopping people at Clapham Junction on the bridge. No coronation, no nearby demonstration, just the Met getting all aroused at being alongside their...
I haven't forgot the ridiculous Met policing under New Labour, having again first hand witnessed tourists with slightly dusty skin (they were South American) questioned for their possession of a camera in Leicester Square. It isn't down to which ever Government is in power.
From the outside, us...
Intelligence and the Met are not often two words you see posted in the same sentence.
A complete waste of time trying to reform it, it's needs breaking up and re-established in a different form.
Having seen their policing first hand after the Sarah Everard rape and murder by one of their own...