Met Police chief 'won't let people like Zack Polanski' undermine officers

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley today said that he will not allow 'misinformed' people like Greens leader Zack Polanski to 'undermine' the hero officers who brought down the Golders Green suspect.The head of Scotland Yard has revealed he has met the police officers who arrested Essa Suleiman in north London and they were 'shaken' by the incident.Defending their response as perfectly acceptable in the circumstances, he said: 'Unless you've been in that moment where you're scared stiff and you're confronting somebody so dangerous, it's hard to put yourself in that situation'.Sir Mark wrote a letter to Mr Polanski on Thursday accusing him of spouting 'misinformed' rhetoric when he shared a post on X that claimed the two policemen were 'violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head'.'If an eminent person wants to thoughtlessly step into that and undermine that then I'm going to deal with that', he said this morning.