CITY AM – Met Police rich list revealed
The London business paper CITY AM leads with a revealed rich list of Met Police personnel. Elsewhere, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the Tories will back the pensions triple lock – a key policy for the party.
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Met Police rich list revealed: Force spent £35m paying top cops on over £100,000
The Metropolitan Police spent £35m last year paying top cops salaries of above £100,000, accounts reveal.
Over 290 top officers and staff were paid more than £100,000, with the highest pay of £313,366, including benefits and pensions, going to assistant commissioner Louisa Rolfe.
It comes after public confidence in the embattled force hit a record low in 2022, after a run of scandals in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard by serving armed cop Wayne Couzens.
Last month, a Home Office-commissioned review by senior lawyer Lady Elish Angiolini called for a radical overhaul of police vetting and recruitment, without which she warned: “There is nothing to stop another Couzens operating in plain sight.”