LONDON, March 22 — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and bereaved families on Tuesday led calls for “top to bottom” reform of London’s Metropolitan Police, after a review found...
LONDON, March 22 — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and bereaved families on Tuesday led calls for “top to bottom” reform of London’s Metropolitan Police, after a review found the UK’s largest crime-fighting force to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic.
Casey found those shocking crimes were perpetrated in a pervasive culture of “deep-seated homophobia” and predatory behaviour, in which female officers and staff “routinely face sexism and misogyny”.Officers from minorities suffer widespread bullying, while violence against women and girls has not been treated seriously enough by the majority white and male force, she said.
Yet she discovered that internal discrimination is “tolerated”, with complaints “likely to be turned against Black, Asian and ethnic minority officers”.“It is not, and has never been, a case of a few ‘bad apples’,” she said. But he backed the Met’s chief Mark Rowley, who was appointed after Cressida Dick was forced out last April, to “restore confidence and trust” through a draft overhaul unveiled in January.“We have a real problem here. We have misogyny, homophobia and racism in the organisation and we’re going to root it out,” he told Sky News.
Failure to reform could mean the force, which polices more than eight million people over 1,605 square kilometres in the British capital, is dismantled, Casey warned. In another interview, Casey noted she “cannot sufficiently assure” people there are not more Met officers like Couzens and Carrick — who at one point served in the same armed unit protecting MPs and foreign diplomats.
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