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Met Police chief calls for reforms
Grimsby Telegraph
|January 19, 2026
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Sir Mark
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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley
(JAMES MANNING/PA)
Rowley has called for sweeping reforms of the policing system, which he says needs to change “quite dramatically”.Speaking on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Sir Mark said policing reforms were overdue and described the current model as “out of date for the challenges of today.
Sir Mark called for a reduction in the 43 police forces in England and Wales, saying it would pave the way for greater investment in technology. “We are overdue big police reforms,” he said.
“The current policing model is a tweaked and bastardised version of what was designed in a 1962 royal commission,” he added. “It is so out of date for the challenges today.
This story is from the January 19, 2026 edition of Grimsby Telegraph.
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