‘The Met police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is now into her 10th scandal’

• IS it any wonder that burglars evade justice as police solve just one in 20 cases?

And police forces in England and Wales have recorded the highest number of rapes and sexual offences in a year, while most rape victims in London drop complaints after speaking to police. It’s why women feel unsafe alone in the street at night.

Then there are the e-scooter riders and cyclists who speed along pavements all day and night.

In 2021 more than 28,300 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats marking a record year.

Prime minister Boris Johnson had to cancel his call with Vladimir Putin with no alternative date as he was preoccupied with the “Partygate” havoc in the House of Commons.

This government lost £4.9billion to Covid fraud. The biggest political scandals often turn out to be slow-burners.

The Met police were accused of presiding over an “establishment stitch-up” in early January by their refusal to investigate Downing Street over reported lockdown parties on the grounds they do not normally investigate breaches of coronavirus rules retrospectively.

The Met police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is now into her 10th scandal, one of the most recent being when she was accused of a litany of failures over the investigation into the murders of two sisters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman in Fryent Country Park in 2020.

Of course, ex-PM Tony Blair was a dubious character too, but at least he had some competent home secretaries from 1997 to 2007.

JAMES REDMOND
Mornington Crescent, NW1