Squad //That clearly was part of the contract of the Commissioner of the Met.//
That isn't clear to me.Never heard of a pay-off being part of a contract in the police force.
Mayor of London gets Dick out, surprised the red tops didn't use it as a headline.
So often the case in top level jobs that termination of contract is very good for the person being terminated early as bad for the employer. This tends to mean the incompetent are usually kept on in harmless new roles rather than being sacked so you really have to be dire for that option to be taken.
It seems the same applied to Sir Ian Blair when he resigned from the Met but I cannot see the rationale for an employment contract being written that way.
Yes, the football world don't seem to have caught up with Mourinho's tactics; he signs a lucrative contract, does well for a year before all goes to pot, gets sacked with a multi-million pond payoff and then waits for another club to repeat the process.
It's not a reward for incompetence. With high profile jobs, even in the commercial world, it's what happens. She's been with the Police for forty years. I see nothing extraordinary in it.
For a job that carried such huge responsibility I don't think the payment or the pension is disproportionate, danny. It wouldn't have surprised me if it had been more.
She signed a new contract in September. Her record was terrible so it was a mistake to renew it.
I expect after Sir Ian Blair won his payout, the contract was changed. And Dick is benefitting.