Met Police Commissioner calls for major reform of policing

Speaking on Sky News, he said the current structure was “out of date for the challenges of today” and needed to change “quite dramatically”.

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00:00The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has called for major reform of the policing

00:07system in England and Wales. Speaking with Sky News, he said the current structure was out of

00:13date for the challenges of today and needed to change quite dramatically. Sir Mark said reducing

00:19the number of police forces from 43 would allow greater investment in technology. He said the

00:26current policing model is a tweaked version of what was designed in a royal commission. He said

00:31it is out of date for the challenges today. A unique thing about where we are today,

00:36police leaders across the system, we're all of a common mindset that the system needs to change

00:41quite dramatically.