METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is reportedly seeking another term as head of Britain’s largest force, despite growing calls for her resignation. 

Dame Cressida is expected to make an informal approach next month for the renewal of her contract to lead the London force, which runs out in April, according to the Times. 

Her decision comes amid a tumultuous period for the head of the Met, which began with calls for her to step down over her officers’ handling of a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard at which mourners were subjected to violence while being arrested. 

Dame Cressida was also personally singled out recently for obstructing an inquiry into the unsolved murder of private detective Daniel Morgan after she refused to give investigators access to a police database.

The damning report found “institutional corruption” in the Met, a conclusion that Dame Cressida disputed.

Kevin Blowe, co-ordinator of police monitoring group Netpol, said the commissioner also “refuses to recognise institutional racism in her force, especially in the use of stop & search.

“She has waived allegations of corruption and lack of transparency by the Daniel Morgan independent inquiry,” he continued. 

“She has bowed to political pressure to crack down on protesters.

“Yet whether she stays or is replaced by another senior officer, we will have a commissioner from April who is unwilling and incapable of adapting the Metropolitan Police to an increasingly fractured society.”

Despite running into a number of controversies, the Met chief was formally given the title of Dame Commander at a ceremony at St James’s Palace today morning in recognition of her 38-year service as a police officer.

The honour was conferred in 2019 by then prime minister Theresa May.