Met chief needs time to turn things around – but patience is in short supply

Damning report may bolster Mark Rowley's declared mission of reform but he needs to take cops on the ground' with him

Paradoxically, now the full scale of the dysfunction at the Metropolitan police, exposed by Louise Casey's report, is known to the public, the force's commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, could start to get a bit more of what he wants.

Rowley has asked for time to start turning the force around, and as the dust settles it was clear that the two people he needs to fear the most because they can sack him - the home secretary and London mayor - will give him that.