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...The great-grandson of the late dictator Chiang Kai-shek has been elected mayor of Taipei, giving a much-needed boost to the Kuomintang, Taiwan’s struggling opposition party....
...Nicholas Lyons, the lord mayor of the City of London, is making strides in pushing for the creation of a UK sovereign wealth fund....
...The review by Baroness Louise Casey was commissioned after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer, Wayne Couzens, in 2021....
...London mayor Sadiq Khan said the report was “incredibly sad, one of the darkest days in the Met Police’s history”....
...Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, said he was working with the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to ensure the force is more effective at removing officers whose conduct is “demonstrably criminal”....
...A city not easily for sale For Colau, the Barcelona on the wrong track was the one she inherited when she became mayor....
...However, Will Norman, the London mayor’s cycling and walking commissioner, said the sector remained “immature”....
...following concerns from an official watchdog about “serious or critical shortcomings” in the force.The capital’s police has faced severe criticism over the past year for the murder of Sarah Everard by officer Wayne...
...The scale of the force’s culture problem came to light after the rape and murder last year of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, who was at the time a serving Met officer....
...The inspectorate has come down on London’s Metropolitan Police, citing a number of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by Met officer Wayne Couzens and jokes about rape and killing black children...
...I expect the Met and the London mayor to take immediate action to begin addressing them.”...
...It also cited the scandals, including the murder last year of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, a serving Met officer at the time, which have had a chilling effect on public confidence....
...On Wednesday, Home Office insiders accused mayor Sadiq Khan of having been “asleep at the wheel”. Law and order is too important to be politicised....
...We first meet the leader, Sgt Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal, credible as a wild-eyed live wire) as he tells his trainees: “Fuck any talk of police brutality — if we lose the fight, we lose the street.”...
...The head of London’s Metropolitan Police announced on Thursday she would step down after the UK capital’s mayor declared himself dissatisfied with her response to scandals....
...And last year the Met was plunged into crisis when Wayne Couzens, a serving officer, abducted, raped and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard while she was walking home in south London....
...The scale of the problem emerged in the wake of the rape and murder a year ago of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, then a serving Met officer....
...The Metropolitan Police did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the mayor’s interview....
...“I expect the mayor of London and the new commissioner to reverse these deficiencies as a matter of urgency,” she noted....
...The new commissioner will take on a service that has been engulfed in scandals involving racism, sexism, misogyny and homophobia that have emerged since Wayne Couzens, then a serving Met officer, abducted...
...Wayne Couzens, the Met officer who was last week sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March, worked for the same command....
...Dick faced severe criticism over that case but has retained the support of Priti Patel, home secretary, and Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor....
...Wayne Couzens, who murdered Everard, served for 16 years despite apparent concerns about his behaviour....
...Metropolitan police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who faced fresh calls to resign over the force’s failure to recognise the danger posed by Wayne Couzens, 48, said she recognised that “a precious bond...
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