MET CHIEF: IT'S MAD I CAN'TAXE 100 ROGUE COPPERS

NEED MORE POWER TO SACK THEM, SAYS ROWLEY POLICE KEPT ON DUTY BUT AWAY FROM PUBLIC

SCOTLAND YARD is having to employ about 100 officers who cannot be trusted to deal with the public in a “completely mad” situation because of a lack of powers to remove them, the Met Commissioner warned today.

Sir Mark Rowley, right, said it was ridiculous and perverse that his force was having to pay the officers when it was unable to allow them to come into contact with the people they were meant to be serving. He added that each of the officers was on severely restricted duties to keep them away from the public and that the Met was examining whether “new levers” could be used to remove them.