Confidence in London police crumbles as Met officer who admitted to serial rapes awaits sentencing – By Margaret Evans (CBC News) / Feb 6, 2023
Critics say culture of misogyny within Metropolitan Police Service has helped shield sexual predators on force
The battered reputation of London’s Metropolitan Police — the United Kingdom’s largest and best known force — will be hard to ignore this week as one of its own receives sentencing for the rape and sexual abuse of 12 women over nearly two decades.
The now former Metropolitan Police constable, David Carrick, pleaded guilty to 49 offences including rape, sexual assault, coercive control and false imprisonment in a London court last month.
Almost as shocking, for many people, is how many red flags the Metropolitan Police — also known as Scotland Yard or the Met — either missed or ignored before Carrick was unmasked as a serial rapist.
In a January media release, the Met said that Carrick had come to the attention of several police forces nine times before October 2021. The release noted he had not been charged on any of those occasions.
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