The Metropolitan Police is dramatically widening its efforts purge the force of officers deemed unsuitable for service by launching a pay-off scheme for senior ranks who are “not willing or able to change”.

Sir Mark Rowley, the embattled Met Commissioner, revealed the move in an uncompromising letter this week to all officers between the ranks of chief inspector and chief superintendent. In the memo obtained by The i Paper , Rowley said he wanted to provide an “exit route” for senior staff who were “not up for the challenge” or failing to reach the standards for his overhaul of Britain’s biggest police force.

The decision to put in place a “voluntary exit scheme” with “financial compensation” for some of the most experienced ranks in the Met has provoked dismay from some of those affec

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