The scathing independent report cataloged abuse and bullying including competitions to make female students cry, grooming domestic abuse victims and stuffing bacon in a Muslim officer’s shoes.
London’s Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and is failing to protect both its own staff and members of the public from predators in its ranks,
to a scathing independent review published Tuesday, adding pressure for major reforms amid dwindling public trust following a series of scandals.Getty ImagesThe U.K.’s largest police force fails to protect women and children, has allowed bullying, discrimination and predatory behavior to thrive internally and must be drastically overhauled to regain public trust, concluded the 363-page report from Baroness Louise Casey.
The report outlined a catalog of abuse, discrimination and bullying, including bags of urine being thrown at cars, competitions on how often male officers could make female students cry, an officer who “groomed” a victim of domestic abuse, an officer who was “coerced into a sexual relationship” by a more senior colleague, a Muslim officer who had bacon shoved in his shoes and two Sikh officers, one of whom had his beard cut and another who had his turban put in shoe box .
It also outlined failings in how reports of abuse and bullying were investigated internally, as well as basic procedural blunders ruining sensitive investigations for crimes like rape, for example one officer ruining an entire fridge full of evidence by storing their lunch in it, numerous instances of simply losing evidence and the poor state or packing of fridges “ruining evidence.
Casey said her report is “unsparing” and urged the force to make a “complete overhaul” before it completely and irreversibly loses public trust.“It is not our job as the public to keep ourselves safe from the police. It is the police’s job to keep us safe as the public,” Casey said in the foreword to the report. “Far too many Londoners have now lost faith in policing to do that. Many Londoners, particularly Black Londoners, never had it to begin with.
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