Mark Rowley
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Mark Rowley is the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, dedicated to ensuring public safety and effective policing in London. This interview reveals his commitment to principled leadership, focusing on the welfare of both the community and the officers under his command amidst complex challenges.
“Thought this was it and they were going to die in this moment. And that's an extraordinary thing that someone will carry for the rest of their life.”
“The first thing is quite rightly politicians, and I'm on a program called Political Thinking. I'm not a politician, I'm accountable to politicians, they represent the public in holding me to account. And Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper as mayor and home secretary sort of at the centre of that.”
“So events, events, events, policing is dominated by that. So I'm sort of looking back to two and a bit years. I'm starting on Monday. And on the Thursday before the Monday, Her Majesty the Queen dies. So immediately all my grand leadership plans for the first week or two are, okay, well, that's out of the window now.”
“It's expanding to affect people's decisions, this impact. So I need to show and I need to encourage people like you to show when you're, there's going to be times, Nick, where things have gone wrong and you're going to criticise us and ask me hard questions. And that's entirely proper and fair. I never object with that whatsoever.”
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson — The Mark Rowley One
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