A poll we've commissioned has found public confidence in the Met Police has been shattered.
Yet when asked whether respondents were confident the commissioner could successfully reform the Met, 63% said they were not.
Former Met Police officer Erol Patterson, who worked for 11 years in the Lambeth area, told the BBC he did "not have any faith at all" in the commissioner's pledges to reform. "Sir Mark comes from the same barrel as the others. Every time a new commissioner comes they say the same thing. The MPS is too big to reform and old practices are too engrained, it's become a gentleman's club and it's not fit for purpose," he said."The only way to get true accountability is to divide it up or get more commissioners.
"That's about reinvesting in neighbourhood policing, strengthening the way we work with communities to fight crime and improving our service to victims." Sir Mark admitted "the challenges ahead of us are not simple, but we have tens of thousands of inspiring and hard-working officers and staff who will be determined and relentless in taking them on.The commissioner will also being giving his reaction and answering questions about the poll on
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