Inspection finds Met police failing or inadequate in key crime fighting areas

Devastating' report says there are serious concerns' about London force's management of dangerous offenders

The UK's biggest police force is providing an inadequate or failing service in seven of eight key crime-fighting areas, and there are serious concerns" about its management of dangerous offenders, according to an official inspection.

The report on the Metropolitan police was described as devastating" by one Whitehall source and comes after the Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, who took office almost two years ago, vowed sweeping reforms.