Inspector of constabulary warns force is failing to investigate unexpected deaths after Stephen Port report
could be failing to spot serial killers and identify murders because they are not properly investigating unexpected deaths, the inspector of constabulary has warned.
“The point I’m making is if they miss, [or] if they’re not good enough at identifying, or they’re not suspicious enough about unexpected deaths in the first place, the chance of missing the odd isolated one, or indeed, another serial killer cannot be discounted. The HMICFRS report found the Met had made some improvements since the Port case, but that many of the officers responding to deaths were still “inexperienced, untrained and poorly supervised”. Parr said it was “extraordinary” that officers admitted relying on “luck” to identify links between deaths at a local level.
“The majority of records we saw were poor, contained many omissions, including some where potentially vital evidence such as drugs and suspicious injuries was only discovered at the mortuary. [Police] hadn’t even looked into the pockets of someone who had been found dead.” He added: “It’s very difficult to reassure the public that something like Port could never happen again and indeed homicides aren’t being missed occasionally.”
“It has become abundantly clear that this force cannot be trusted to make changes and improvements itself and the government must step in and oversee proper change across this force,” he said.
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