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Dame Cressida Dick felt intimidated" into stepping down as commissioner of the Metropolitan police in February this year following an ultimatum from the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, according to a review by Sir Thomas Winsor which found due process was not followed.

Winsor found Dick felt intimidated" following an ultimatum from Khan.

In this case, none of the statutory steps set out in section 48 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 and summarised above were followed. The Mayor, through his Chief of Staff, gave the Commissioner an ultimatum on 10 February 2022: if the Commissioner did not attend a meeting and convince the Mayor that her plan of 4 February 2022 would be improved, he would make a statement to the media.

That statement would make clear that he no longer had trust and confidence in the Commissioner, and that he intended to start the statutory process for her removal.

Londoners will be able to see that this review is clearly biased and ignores the facts.

On the former commissioner's watch, trust in the police fell to record lows following a litany of terrible scandals. What happened was simple - I lost confidence in the former commissioner's ability to make the changes needed and she then chose to stand aside.