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Today: 06/04/2023

06/04/2023

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 06/04/2023

Met Police chief wants more power to sack officers.

Mishal Husain and Nick Robinson are joined by the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley.

The Metropolitan Police has diverted dozens more officers onto professional standards after finding hundreds of sexual and domestic abuse complaints need to be re-assessed. Sir Mark Rowley the Met Commissioner joins Mishal Husain and Nick Robinson.

The housing secretary, Michael Gove, has said that some of the cuts to social housing made by the coalition government were a mistake. He has been speaking to this programme about the case of Sheila Seleoane who lay undiscovered in her flat in south London for two-and-a-half years after she died.

This episode of today was edited by Victoria Gardiner and Jack Evans. The studio director was Ben Andrews.

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