Sadiq Khan thanks Cressida Dick on final day as Met commissioner

London mayor says police chief who resigned amid scandal has given four decades of dedicated public service'

The mayor of London has thanked the outgoing Metropolitan police commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, for four decades of dedicated public service" on her final day in the role.

Dick resigned following Sadiq Khan's public criticism of her handling of a group of police officers based at Charing Cross police station who had shared racist, homophobic and misogynistic messages on WhatsApp.