The Metropolitan Police has been in a long-term crisis

• THE review (Dixon in the dock, January 20), is very timely after the news of serial rapist David Carrick and the police now saying we will have two or three officers facing charges every week for months to come.

The book, Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police by Tom Harper, clearly tells us how we got here, as it offers a critique of 30 years of the Metropolitan Police Service, over all the scandals, covering political corruption, misogyny, institutionalised racism and homophobia allegations.

He argues well that the MPS has been in a long-term crisis for some time and Londoners whose safety they have been entrusted with are being short-changed.

With morale at rock bottom and 12 years of swingeing cuts, which meant they could not do their jobs, it also highlights successes like Safer Neighbourhoods policing under a Labour government.

For anyone interested in the policing of nine million people, with their consent, this is a must read and the review gives an excellent preview into how the world famous police force got itself into this sorry mess, and how it might get itself out of it.

MURAD QURESHI
@MuradQureshiLDN
www.muradqureshi.com/