Back to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, who seems to have recovered from his strop earlier in the week. After Rowley was slammed for ignoring reporters who met him outside the Cabinet Office – even grabbing the microphone of one journalist – the Met boss has decided to speak with broadcasters today amidst rising fears of ‘two tier policing’.
Hitting out at claims that police officers are treating some groups more severely than others, Rowley fumed:
It’s complete nonsense. We have commentators from either end of the political spectrum who like to throw accusations of bias at the police because we stand in the middle, we operate independently under the law without fear or favour. And if you’ve got crazy views over there, you don’t like it; and if you’ve got crazy views over there, you don’t like it. We will continue to do that.
The Police Commissioner went on:
The serious voices who echo those are of more concern to me, because the risk is they legitimise it, and they legitimise the violence that the officers I’m sending on mutual aid today will face on the streets.
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