public relations at the @metpoliceuk are smooth and practised one benefit of having a good PR team is they will take a story that the boss can’t survive and instead create a non story she can
one example is this morning in reference to the sentencing hearing of #WayneCouzens for Ms Everard’s appalling rape and murder
they called Couzens an “ex police officer” he wasn’t ex
he was however a member of the elite firearms trained VIP protection unit
he also had allegations, serious allegations of sexual offences some quite recent against him and yet he was still on duty still drawing a firearm and still holding his warrant card which he used to kidnap poor Sarah
his ultimate boss is Cressida Dick and she has an unfortunate history relating to firearms at the @metpoliceuk she was the command when Jean charles de menezes was shut six times in the head by the police
there are many who think that the life of an innocent Brazilian man on his way to work should have been the end of Cressida Dicks promotion hopes , but it wasn’t
and now we have a huge effort being put in to change the story from one she can’t survive to a anodyne one she can
Tbh add in the pre-emptive attack on the ladies holding a vigil for sarah and it does rather look like there is a large reputation management exercise underway instead of the desperately needed spotlight on leadership failings at the @metpoliceuk
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