(ANSA) – LONDON, MARCH 21 – The final report on Scotland Yard released by Baroness Louise Casey, a Member of the House of Lords, who has said the UK’s main police force is “institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic”. “is devastating” and must change immediately or risk being dismantled. Indeed, a systematic proliferation of negligence, error, abuse, and cover-ups has occurred among Met police officers, including rape cases filed because the freezers containing basic evidence were broken were.
Police chief Sir Mark Rowley could only apologize to the citizens of the British capital. “It’s horrible to read the report that evokes anger, frustration and embarrassment,” he said. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said today was “one of the darkest days in Scotland Yard’s 200-year history”. Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also intervened, saying trust in the police was “severely damaged”.
The independent report came in 2021 after the case of former agent Wayne Couzens, protagonist of one of the Met Police’s most serious criminal scandals: the kidnapping, rape and gruesome killing of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, by He entertained on the way home on the pretext of false detention for phantom breaches of the Covid restrictions in place at the time. Then many more cases of law-breaking by officers surfaced, such as raping police officer David Carrick, who was recently sentenced to 36 life sentences, and a drastic internal disciplinary process was instituted to eliminate the “good apples.” However, today’s report has shown that there is still work to be done to revive the fortunes of an institution once held in high regard around the world. (HAND).
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