Cressida Dick appointed first female Met police commissioner

Met’s former head of counter-terrorism to take over from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe as Britain’s top police officerCressida Dick is to become the first ­female head of the Metropolitan police, completing a remarkable career comeback by vowing to reform Britain’s largest police force.The former senior Scotland Yard officer – who had quit policing to take up a job in the Foreign Office – won the support of the home secretary, Amber Rudd, and the London mayor, Sadiq Kh