Met commissioner Cressida Dick announces change in wake of Sarah Everard’s abduction and murder
Plainclothes police officers in London will video call a uniformed colleague to confirm their identity when stopping a lone woman, the head of the Metropolitan police has announced in the wake of Sarah Everard’s abduction and murder.
Cressida Dick said the change would put the responsibility on the officer to prove they were acting properly, after senior police figures were criticised for their reaction to the case in which a serving officer, Wayne Couzens, was jailed for life for staging a fake arrest before kidnapping and burning Everard’s body in March.
