Sir Mark Rowley has been appointed by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, as the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, replacing Dame Cressida Dick who resigned in February.
Rowley is a former head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command but had left Scotland Yard in 2018 and had been consulting on specialist security projects and working on technology and data.
In a statement the Metropolitan Police said it had been a “highly competitive recruitment process” and Patel said: “Sir Mark Rowley is a distinguished and exceptionally experienced police officer, having served the people of the West Midlands and Surrey before guiding the capital through some of its most challenging moments in the wake of the 2017 terror attacks, as the Met’s then head of counter-terrorism.”…