Justice secretary praises ‘vast majority’ of officers but concedes London force clearly has a problem
Dominic Raab has defended the “vast majority” of Metropolitan police officers afterthat an official report will say next week that the force is ridden with sexism, racism and homophobia.
The justice secretary acknowledged on Friday that the Met had a particular problem with vetting new officers. But he defended its new commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, who he said was doing his best to root out “bad apples”. Sources have told the Guardian that the Casey review, which was commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard by the police officer Wayne Couzens, will make for “horrible” reading for the Met, which is now in the “last-chance saloon”.
Raab told LBC on Friday: “The vast majority of police officers within the Met and elsewhere do their job professionally, serve the country extremely well, but we’ve clearly got a problem in the Met. And the thing to do is to own that problem, take it, tackle it head on, and that’s why the Casey review is so important.”
He added: “Whether it’s the Casey review or the brilliant work and timely work that commissioner Mark Rowley is doing within the Met to root out the bad apples, to make sure the vetting is done as rigorously as people expect, we will leave no stone unturned to make sure that the police in this country – and in particular in the Met – are protecting women, not posing a threat to women.”
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