Carol Vorderman is among many who have expressed concern following an assessment of London’s Metropolitan Police, which discovered it to be institutionally racist, homophobic, and sexist.
Following the murder of Sarah Everard by serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens in 2021, Baroness Louise Casey commissioned a study of the country’s largest police force. PC David Carrick, a serial rapist, was also found guilty this year after pleading guilty to 49 crimes, including 24 acts of rape against 12 women between 2003 and 2020.
The 363-page study, which was issued on Tuesday, accused the Met Police of failing to protect women from abusive officers and stated that violence against women and girls was not treated as seriously as other types of violence.
The study also discovered that homosexual and Black officers faced prejudice and bullying inside the police.
Reacting to the findings, former Countdown host Vorderman tweeted: ‘”Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.” Baroness Casey report.’
‘12% of women working inside the Met say they have been attacked or harassed AT WORK,’ she wrote alongside angry-face emoji.
Vorderman, 62, added: ‘Will prosecutions now take place?’
Reacting to her tweet, one follower commented: ‘They will never get it. They’ve still got over a hundred officers accused of serious sex offences on duty and were actively trying to recruit ex officers who had left or been dismissed for the same. The whole thing is rotten. Root, branch, leaf.’
On Vorderman’s calls for prosecutions, another wrote: ‘More chance of you coming back to do countdown. They look after their own.’
Another follower weighed in: ‘Disgraceful. Hopefully lots of prosecutions and sackings, but I doubt it, sadly. Just swept under the carpet, as usual.’
Her remarks came when Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid expressed concern over women’s safety.
Speaking on the ITV1 programme on Tuesday, Reid, 52, said: ‘One officer said, “If you look at our performance around rape, serious sexual offences, the detection rate is so low, you may as well say, it’s legal in London”.
‘And honestly, as I read that Sir Mark Rowley, I actually feel frightened. Because that sort of message going out is not a helpful one to women in London.
‘What can you say today to reassure women in London who are at risk?’
In light of her findings, Baroness Casey has called for a ‘total reform’ of the Met Police, which has been accused of taking a ‘check box’ attitude to a plethora of past unfavourable reports, instead blaming ‘bad apples’.
She warned that frontline policing has been “eroded” because it is “tough to get rid of people who undermine the Met’s integrity” as a result of issues like as austerity, changes in crime, and the disciplinary system.
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