Met chief calls for radical reform

MET Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has demanded a merger of forces and investment in technology to modernise policing and boost local crime fighting.

- BY DAVE CLARK

Sir Mark said: "The current policing model is a tweaked and bastardised version of what was designed in a 1962 royal commission.

"It is so out of date for the challenges today. A unique thing about where we are today, police leaders across the system were all of a common mindset that the system needs to change quite dramatically.

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"We're prepared to be the turkeys who vote for Christmas in terms of fewer police forces.