FILE - In this Wednesday July 14, 2021 record photo, Britain's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick poses for her photograph aft she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, astatine St James's Palace successful cardinal London. The British authorities connected Friday, Sept, 10 says the country's astir elder constabulary serviceman volition enactment successful her occupation for different 2 years. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick volition stay astatine the helm of the London unit until April 2024. (Kirsty O'Connor/Pool Photo via AP, file)

FILE - In this Wednesday July 14, 2021 record photo, Britain's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick poses for her photograph aft she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, astatine St James's Palace successful cardinal London. The British authorities connected Friday, Sept, 10 says the country's astir elder constabulary serviceman volition enactment successful her occupation for different 2 years. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick volition stay astatine the helm of the London unit until April 2024. (Kirsty O'Connor/Pool Photo via AP, file)

LONDON – Britain’s astir elder constabulary serviceman volition enactment successful her occupation for different 2 years, the authorities announced Friday. The determination comes contempt disapproval of her unit implicit its handling of immoderate investigations and policing of protests.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick volition stay astatine the helm of the London unit until April 2024. Her five-year declaration had been owed to extremity adjacent year.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said the hold would supply “continuity and stableness arsenic we look from the coronavirus pandemic and enlistee 20,000 further constabulary officers.”

Dick is the archetypal pistillate to caput Britain’s biggest and oldest constabulary force, which was founded successful 1829.

She faced resignation calls successful March implicit the mode constabulary treated protesters who defied coronavirus restrictions to clasp a vigil for a murdered woman. The accused slayer was a Metropolitan Police officer.

In June an autarkic study into the probe of an unsolved 1987 execution accused the unit of organization corruption, a assertion that Dick denied. The unit has besides been criticized for the mode it investigated decades-old allegations of intersexual maltreatment by salient people.

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Earlier successful her career, Dick was the commanding serviceman successful a 2005 counterterrorism cognition successful which constabulary changeable dormant an guiltless Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, aft mistaking him for a termination bomber. A assemblage cleared Dick of blame.

Her enactment of the London unit was backed by the federation that represents rank-and-file constabulary officers.

“I americium immensely honored and humbled to person been asked to widen my clip arsenic Commissioner for a further 2 years,” Dick said. “I americium arrogant to proceed to service my city.”

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