Rowley says officers should not be ‘policing toxic culture wars debates’ and are in an impossible position
The Metropolitan police have declined to drop their investigation into the comedy writer Graham Linehan for tweets about trans issues, and said that the law used by officers to detain him needs reviewing.
The Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said on Wednesday officers should not be “policing toxic culture wars debates”, and while any review took place, officers would investigate only more serious cases concerning online messages.
Rowley said “policing has been left between a rock and a hard place by successive governments”.
The new Met statement followed a largely hostile reaction to the arrest of Linehan on Monday as he arrived at Heathrow airport on a flight from the US.
