It took Sarah Everard’s murder for Met Police to examine sexual misconduct and abuse claims against officers
Following Sarah Everard’s murder, the Metropolitan police are finally going to examine all current cases of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse allegations against London’s police officers.
Cressida Dick, commissioner for the force, announced on 8 October that they’re launching the investigation. Dick added that similar allegations made against officers and workers at the force over the last 10 years will also be reviewed.
‘Institutional corruption’
But Dick herself has been accused of “presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up”. Her response to a panel which found ‘institutional corruption’ in the Met was described as “most disappointing”.
Officers from the force’s Directorate of Professional Standards will analyse each of the cases internally. And they’ll undertake a thorough check of the vetting history of Met Police staff involved in the claims.
Dick told the PA news agency:
We’ll be reviewing [the allegations] to make sure that the victim has been properly supported, and that the investigation is suitably thorough.
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Support us and go ad-freeWe’ll also be going back to look at some of those [historic] investigations just to make sure that the processes that should have taken place have taken place and that we are taking the right management action after the case is closed.
‘Undermined trust’
The force said in a statement that the examination was being held in the aftermath Everard’s murder by former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens and other cases that have “undermined trust”. It’s been launched in addition to an independent review into the Met’s culture by baroness Casey of Blackstock.
The announcement came as Dick undertook a walkabout in Battersea Park, south-west London, with two female officers on 8 October. She also addressed a report in the Times newspaper which says home secretary Priti Patel has set Dick three key targets to meet in order to keep her job.
Dick told the PA news agency:
There were a number of things that the Home Secretary has discussed with me and I’ve discussed with her about how we can work most effectively together in the future, but we share the same priorities.
A history of calamity
Dick recently presided over the “excessive” and “disproportionate” use of force against women holding a vigil in Sarah Everard’s memory. The police officers, whose colleague killed Everard, went on to ‘breach the human rights’ of those honouring her memory. These were officers under Dick’s command.
Dick said conversations were had in the run-up to her contract being extended with London mayor Sadiq Khan. She added that the trio are all focused on “the same things”, including reducing violence in the capital and preventing violence against women and girls. Asked again about the reports, Dick said the conversations she had with Patel were “private” and she wouldn’t comment on them further.
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I see The Guardian now uses the word ‘fury’ with the same meaning it used to have for the Daily Sport, i.e. ‘complete lack of fury’ or ‘we are fabricating the presence of fury to fit what we’ve helped facilitate in our readers until now’.
The idea that she’d suddenly be capable of fury about all this is cranky.
So, to recap, that’s:
‘Independent’ – ‘not at all independent’
‘fury’ – ‘absence of all fury’
‘levelling up’ – ‘not doing anything’
‘democracy’ – ‘dismantling of legal aid, fake police watchdog, fake ombudsmen, dozens of right-wing tabloid and TV stations, mentally unstable police officers, water cannons in a lock-up garage somewhere, Prevent, Line of Duty and Coronation Street storylines portraying the availability of police oversight, no Philosophy classes in schools but RE, an opposition party almost completely filled with sleeper agents, placatory drugs everywhere, pseudo-alternative cultures and mainstream promotion of these portraying those drugs as ‘cool’, military grooming children in ‘Careers’ lessons, false portrayal of ‘County Lines’ dealing being tackled when the policing system actively fosters all crime of State benefit, shops full of docility-inducing foods’
‘radicalised’ – ‘mentally active and in possession of a soul’
‘local government’ – ’embezzlers’
‘councillor’ – ’embezzler’
‘MP’ – ’embezzler’
‘prime minister’ – ’embezzler’
’embezzler’ -‘scapegoat to obscure naturalised embezzlement throughout society’
After the atrocity the fuzz perpetrated at Orgreave, why is anybody surprised?