Despite two reviews by the force's directorate of professional standards, Dame Cressida said the force had found no misconduct by its officers.
"I think all of us watching could empathise with somebody who is stopped in a vehicle, who has a young child in the back, who does not probably know what exactly is going on, and is subsequently found, together with her partner, not to be carrying anything illicit." Ch Supt Karen Findlay, who is in charge of the Territorial Support Group which conducted the stop, and local area commander Helen Harper, also informed Ms Williams about the IOPC referral and the next steps in the process.
I'm sorry, pathetic, if they did not do it they wouldn't have to be sorry!
If your pulled and your white you got to tale it like a man, if your another colour you got to run ro some one claiming racism.
Outrageous.
Id love to know the WHOLE story behind this. From both sides. Why did police stop them? Why was there so many police? Why didnt they comply and leave the car? What was going through the police mind with batons drawn etc? Lots of questions.
This woman is an embarrassment to the uniform. Bet her officers glad she doesn't support them
What?!? You get a apology for committing crimes? That’s privilege.
Clarification: so if the police stop me for any reason and I dont know why they stopped me, but film and post part of the encounter and start screaming that I did nothing why why why and show distress, I will then I too will get an apology?
If they were at the wrong side of the road and failed to stop, searching is the minimum anyone expect from the police. Stop! Next step will be apologise for arresting criminals?
And it’s in this clip, you can clearly see where the problem lies 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Cressida Dick is the problem curtailing to the the wrong doers while investigating the innocent.
Muppets are entirely written on the Met forehead... What a bloody JOKE the met is
Get Dick Out
A lot of comments about the couple driving on the wrong side of the road also driving off from the police, not many listening to the couples side of the story. As if the police don't make up lies a lot of times in interaction with the general public 🤔
I bet the entire Met feel warm and fuzzy having you as the Commissioner. Actually you've probably dealt the Police Service as a whole a major injustice by your actions.
If there are lessons? Sorry for the distress but not the actions that yielded such distress? Mind b4 mouth - THINK!
If there was nothing wrong why have you not shown the footage from the stop from the police car and also the body cam footage.if everthing was above board it would surely put this to bed, but as it is it stinks of racial profiling even to me as a white man.
I bet every police constable in London wishes that someone would sack this useless commissioner.
I think you are in the wrong job. Stop apologising and start policing without fear or favour.
Ms Dick should get on with her job and ignore interference by MSM, desperate to justify their existence by creating controversy.
Ms Williams should applaud the Police in their efforts to keep her safe. All are equal under the law , even prominent athletes.
Everyone looking for a reason why but missing the point. This is an admission they got it wrong. They did not drive away, nor drive on the road the wrong side. It was a narrow road with cars parked on both sides, so no options but to drive down the middle of the road. MetLies
This is why criminals laugh at the police
So the top brass of the UK police have also lost their heads like their American counterparts? Madness.
Dick is limp and needs to be taken in hand and pulled from this job. Traffic offences committed, police had every right to do what they did.
Back your officers .....utterly spineless.
Pathetic
What a disgrace she is the officers on the street been totally let down London policeing is a joke
The rank and file officers throughout the country, not just those in London, must be aghast and feel completely undermined.
Khan and Dick must go
Stop apologising for doing your job. Stop pandering to this lunacy
Your police officers where doing their job,this is pathetic
And now there are literally thousands of others the police need to apologise to.
Just for clarity are the met police now going to apologise every time they stop someone for dangerous driving and failing to stop? All anyone wants is consistency
All this talk about excessive stop & searches on blacks, here, have a chew on this ....
You taking the knee then Dick
She ought to be ashamed of herself, metpoliceuk commisioner needs to resign. Apologising for a legal stop search because a famous person makes a fuss. Completely against the police principles of 'without fear or favour', unless your famous of course!
Disgrace
FFS virtu signalling again stop the crap and start Policing properly
SackDick
What a complete dick !! Too obvious 😂😂😂😂😂
She's not apologising for the stop and search I have no idea for what she's apologising for she does look rather weak and humble to be Frank and should step down.
This is weak leadership...
If I’d been followed by 6 police in a riot van then dragged out my car handcuffed then the same happened to my partner whilst my child was in the car for the police to search my car to find nothing I’d be pissed off and want an apology
Pathetic!!
on 5 july a police statement said: 'Officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards have reviewed both footage from social media, and the body-worn video of the officers, and are satisfied that there is no concern around the officers' conduct.' Why the change?
White Feather I think
Embarrassing and pathetic.
What steps have been made ? Police retraining? Or sack them
Why apologise, if the police done nothing wrong why do they feel the need to say sorry 🤔🤔🤔
How ashamed I am, that this thing is Commisioner of the Metropolitan Police.
Why is she apologising when the member of the public failed to stop after driving on the wrong side of the road. Is it a case of I’m an Olympic athlete, the law doesn’t apply to me?
This was not necessary.
You are a embarrassment, why is the woman in charge with no back bone
She should never ever have been put in charge. She should have been forced to resign after sanctioning the murder of Jean Charles de Menezez.
Does the Met normally say sorry, I wonder why they are in this case.
Met police should just stop everything they are doing...don’t stop anyone or anything.
Grow a pair, there is no need for an apology if you haven’t done anything wrong.
Time she was replaced.
Why only to her? Did she apologise to her partner too? Does she apologise to everybody every time an officer does his job? As the Commissioner she should support the men and women who work for her.
From now on I’m going to identify as being black.
Unbelievable
Good luck trying to recruit people into the Police force now! No support from the top.
Time to resign .
What makes this person so special to warrant a personal apology from the met commissioner for something the police didnt even do wrong? Did she take one knee while she did it?
Shocking
It’s fine looking into handcuff policy until the one that does not get handcuffed stabs an officer. Officer safety ?
It’s ironic that anarchists are demanding the defunding & dismantling of the police yet Dick has just taken the first step along this road herself. Again the focus is on feelings & not facts. As a society we are in grave danger as a result.
Wonder how far a non celebrity member of the public would get with an apology metpoliceuk ?
Cressida Dick states that pokice 'subsequently found (Bianca) , together with her partner, not to be carrying anything illicit.'. This just shows that the Met clearly have the assumption that all people of colour are automatically assumed to be guilty of a crime!!!
Shameful absolutely shameful
Resign you are useless,always bowing or kneeling to everyone
Did they kneel down as well?
The Met will now have to apologise for every stop search they have conducted. I am afraid it’s a green light to carry prohibited articles around London frontline cops will be feared to stop people.
NaijaGoldaMeir Not sure the need for apology. I get there is a disproportionate use of handcuffs. But people should just comply. Police seem unable to do their job with race being an issue. With high knife and gun crimes the police should be free to stop who they want within reason.
Fire this woman. A disgrace to the police. You back your people especially when no wrong doing has been done. Unbelievable metpoliceuk NormanBrennan
Embarrassing, Police might as well turn it in now
Police backing off again .it's all they seem to do in london
pritipatel well I hope CDick is happy now look what she’s started.
Spineless!
Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has the decency to apologise Priti Patel would have said I’m sorry you feel that way
More utterly loathsome pandering. If Ms. Williams was so upset as she 'appeared' to be, why, when, supposedly, the care of her child was paramount, was she instead filming the Police officers on her 'phone? Getting ready to go straight to a lawsuit maybe? Pathetic!
I do wonder what the hell is happening in London and at the same time, pleased I don’t live there.
dickout
Hope you apologise to the non famoufs people as well.
What a waste of space she is.
metpoliceuk she’s just put an end to stop searching anyone of colour. What an absolute joke she is. UKHomeSecretary how long will you allow this woman to desecrate the Police Service?
Failed athletes playing the race card 😷
What did police do wrong? I thought she refused to stop, drove wrong side of road. Or am I wrong?
Com Cressida Dick seemingly wants to ignore the pattern of irresponsible behaviour by her police officers. metpoliceuk is on record that they take each 'stop' on merit. But at CD's level she's needs to look at the big picture by looking all such incidents to see the patterns.
There’s the green light for any person of colour to refuse to be searched. Good luck Met officers, it’s a shame your boss won’t support you using your legal powers. What a joke she is. Let the knife carriers and drug dealers go about as they please. Stop search is finished.
Embarrassing
Sorry is fine but has your officers learnt anything from this?
Utter tripe
So, I am not from England. How many minorty people is the police allowed to stop monthly? Is the chief police officer going to apologise to all the people who believe that were wrongfully stopped? Should police avoid stopping non-indigenous people in England.
What a world we live in when our police officers are forced to apologise to those that knowingly break the law.
😂😂😂😂 racist and xenophobs are having a fit because of the met police apology! Deal with it!!!!
Seems the police have let justice down
Stop-and-search helped to catch the Yorkshire Ripper. Just saying...
Why?
I’m sorry too - I’m sorry you felt necessary to apologise. Is this favouritism because she is celebrity athlete? Would that happen if she was the girl in the street? Don’t think so. Hypocrites!!
Cressida Dicks - what an effing embarrassment to law & order. 'Considering the use of handcuffs' - what next? Asking the crims if they would like to make an appointment to be arrested? Maybe she'd be happier with the disarming the police altogether, after all Crims Lives Matter
Why because she is an athlete, she is not different when it comes to the law.
The police has shot themselves in the foot apologizing very weak now r.i.p police
So PFEW_HQ (Police Federation) has Commissioner Dick set a precedence for every Chief Constable to publicly apologise to member of the public every time they are upset & distressed by Police Officers carrying out a lawful stop search? This has gone to far.
another capitulation to the mob and social media. Weak
Not good enough lady
We have arrived, at a time in UK history, when the Police are so cowed by actions that took place 4000 miles away, that they now apologise for upholding the law. This will be seen as a green light by the BAME communities' criminal elements and multiple gangs. UK POLICE = wimps!
She needs to grow some or go
FFS....the police will be recommending them for bloody awards next. No wonder criminals are not bothered about the police anymore.
Did she ever apologise to the Demenezes family? CressidaDick StateMurder
Sack her!
But how is it that this deplorable behaviour continues in your police force?
Use Cummings Law. You can do whatever the f**K you want in the UK. People are so naive.
Speaking as a minority here, if there is a higher likelihood of certain categories of trouble being committed by a certain group, the natural instinct is to do more checks. This should be acknowledged by leaders of these groups and fixed. Just pointing finger at police is lame.
She needs to be removed from post immediately. This is a statement that Black people can do as they please and if they play the race card they will be let off. Absolutely disgraceful. Black privallege is the big problem in this Country.
Weak leader
What the actual fuck, apologising before she knows if indeed there are lessons to be learned !!
Did they do what police said they did if so what r they apologising for If they didn't heads should roll
One jellyfish of a leader
How about fluffy handcuffs and tickling sticks ! It’s worth a try........what a waste of space this woman is...
This will give all people out there a chance now to use the race card when they have broken the law for any reason. To drive how they want all they have to do is film it and put the race card online and say they did nothing wrong. What a joke!!
How sad, the only one apologising here should be BiancaaWills what a way to speak to a human being just doing their job. Hope you're happy ChristieLinford
Ridiculous.Are apologies to be given to every driver detained by the police?Is Commissioner saying she does not believe officers who reviewed incident and found no fault?Met need clearout of senior officers appointed on the grounds of holding current fashionable political views
pritipatel please sort this virtue signalling LEFTWAFFE out. She has just undermined policing. Apologising for the Rank and File doing their job. Do you realise the message she has just sent out to all those stabbists Khant has left running about unchecked. Shameful.
Sorry...wtff .doing ur job ..
what a load of shit why apologise they should have stopped when told to do so and should have got out of car when asked instead of crying on the racist card
Pathetic and weak. This is no a license for people to commit crime and get away with it. Police to scared to do their jobs.
Stop now. Stop pandering to these self obsessed people jumping on the BLM bandwagon.
Dippy woman
Finally... If the case wouldn't have gotten so much attention there would never be an apology. Similar cases happen everyday without any concerns. Change your attitude metpoliceuk
Who would want to be police in London with her throwing them under the bus at ever opportunity. Throw in the major too and the pension can’t be worth that much grief!
Utter disgrace of a woman.
Dick has got to be the worst Commissioner the Metropolitan police has ever had, clearly a political appointment from the start, weak and indecisive, she has sold staff out completely.
Even my left-wing mate says this is terrible. Going forward poor Officers.
PC gone mad.
Why? Failing to stop!!
There isn’t a police force any more that’s to lefty snowflakes like her
Useless, end of.
Hopeless
Absolute spineless melt of a woman. Would she apologise to any other driver who complained about being legitimately stopped? Thought not!
Grow a set woman and do your job properly
People get pulled over every day of the week, without hysteria, this is pulling the race card at its finest.
Feel sorry for any copper working in London you have got no chance when you are ordered to apologize for doing your job correctly..where are the police unions protecting their members..
Another one bowing down to the mob. Pathetic
It appears the issue is the use of handcuffs during a stop and search rather than the grounds for the search. Officers have the power to handcuff during a search but this shouldn’t be done by default.should be risk assessed to protect officers, people themselves and evidence.
Caught driving on the wrong side of the road? Bianca's trick works better than saying 'I was in Pizza Express Woking'
What about all the other people they've done it to?
3 British people murdered PC Andrew Harper, in court today 1 British man stabbed 2 paramedics this week. Yet you keep pushing this instead...deplorable
Im thinking of burning a few buildings down tonight but then pulling the race card so I don’t get arrested.
Didn't they drive off when first asked to stop by police? Is driving off when the police ask you to stop now 'ok?'
The police officers did nothing wrong.
Apologising for the distress. Not for the stop and search.
Surely you should wait until the investigation into the conduct of the officers is complete before making an apology?
Does this situation really merit the intervention of the met commissioner? What a joke the met is now 😂
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