We missed out on Cressida Dick but the links between the NI police and the Met are strong
Congratulations to Cressida Dick who has overcome the pain and controversy of being the Gold commander in the operation which led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005, to become the first woman Commissioner of the Met. The Policing Board here passed her over for Chief Constable in 2014, preferring George Hamilton as the first local man to head up the PSNI. Gender therefore isn’t everything, although her application suggested that the PSNI job could still …