Beholden to Mayor Ken
From Lindsay Jenkins
Sir: David Williams (Letters, 17 September) pointed out that David Cameron’s mayor-appointed police chiefs would allow Ken Livingstone to appoint the Commissioner of the Met. Insane indeed.
Yet that insanity arrived with Labour’s creation of a London mayor eight years ago. The mayor personally appoints just over half of the members of the Metropolitan Police Authority. That authority produces the short list for the job of commissioner. Worse, Livingstone has a direct role in the appointment, discipline and removal of all senior police officers. No wonder London’s senior policemen appear to be politicised: they constantly have to look over their shoulders at City Hall.
How come news of this has not yet reached David Cameron?
Lindsay Jenkins London W14
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