Scotland Yard – who polices the police

The political fallout from the sudden resignation of Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, will be an entertainment in itself but is of secondary importance to Londoners. After a litany of humiliating blunders, deadly mistakes, and evidence of a hair-raisingly sexist and misogynist culture within the force, a line had to be drawn – though as ever years late.  When Sir Robert Mark was brought in to clean up corruption in the Met in 1972 he evidently remarked his ambition