Hundreds of officers should be sacked for breaking the law and misconduct, says Met Police chief

The new Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley came into the job five weeks ago with a promise to restore faith in the UK's largest police force.
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Today, after a damning report found systemic failings in how the Met handles misconduct allegations made by officers and their families - he admitted hundreds of his officers should have been sacked but weren't.
The findings heap more pressure on a force already in special measures.
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[@cobbler40]

They spend most of their time covering up for each other.

[@evan6901]

Truth! It’s an old boys club. They don’t protect and serve, they see it as us versus them.

[@sunrise-wl6cb]

Because they are all corrupted to the core.

[@jimmyohara2601]

They're all idiots there in their sheltered workshop 🤣😭

[@capta1ncaveman746]

Everyone here knows thats true jim

[@paullacey2999]

And retire early on a pension that would choke a horse....

[@fuckbankers]

11 accusations of abuse and he's still a serving officer?

[@clive373]

Remember the cop who killed Ian Tomlinson? He had a record of violence, but was still a cop. PC simon harwood.

[@ltipst2962]

@@clive373 I believe they endorse violence as a way of promotion. It's about keeping secrets and being hard as nails. They're a disgusting gang that need throwing to the streets now and resetting.

[@scrappydoo7887]

Accusations mean nothing

[@sunrise-wl6cb]

Because the Met instituanilaly corrupt .

[@ony583]

@@scrappydoo7887 one or two, maybe, but when an officer keeps receiving a disproportionate amount of accusations like that then they do mean something.

[@glennrobinson7193]

Just sacked? Are you joking, that's too soft. They ought to be brought to trial in the courts.

[@mcadamdavid1]

HERE IN MY SMALL TOWN IN STRATFORD ON AVON WARWICKSHIRE CV376SP IN U.K. THE POILICE ` METROPOLITAN` STOLE A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL, SOLD HER TO STRATFORD TOWN POLICE AS TRAFFICKED -HUMAN, TO ORGANISED CRIME KNOWING WITH INTENT, THE MOB WOULD MURDER HER ON MY STREET. AIMEE FOWLLER WAS HER NAME AGE 16 MURDERED AGE 18 TO ORDER . HER DAD IN AFGHANISTAN HER AND THE MOTHER AT HOME VILLAGE HEREFORD U.S.A.F. R.I.A.T MILITARY BASE , WHEN ABDUCTED SOLD TORTURED TWO YEARS, THEN RAN THROUGH THE STREETS OF STRATFORD TOWN CENTER , BEING STABBED NOW AND AGAIN SCREENING FOR HER BEGGING FOR HER LIFE HUNREDS WITNESS AND A HUNDRED MALE FEMALE AND CHILD GYPSIES SANGUINE INBREDS CUT HER UP INTO PEICES ALIVE PAGAN STYLER. .IN THE CAR PARK AT WOODMAN COURT PO-CODE CV376SP. THE POLICE DID DOOR KNOCKING 8 MONTHS AFTER THE BRUTAL MURDER [ C.I. D ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA ]> ,AS DAMAGE LIMITATIONS EXERCISE, BECAUSE POLICE INVOLVED. DID YOU SEE HEAR THIS ? I `AND THREE OTHERS GAVE STATEMENTS AGAINST ALL INVOLVED ..... ATTACKED BY THIS SANGUINARY INBRED GYPSY MOBB..RESULT 3 POLICE REMOVED FOR TRAFFICKING . 8 GYPSIES SENTENCED 2 YEARS 3 GYPSIES SENTENCED 15 YEARS EACH, THATS NOT JUSTICE OF THE HUNDREDS OF SANGUINE GYPSIES WHO WENT TO DO THIS MANY TIMES SINCE THEN.

[@DatActiveGuy]

Nooooo! Police are good! Just because they abuse their powers and don’t know the law so they act on personal feelings that doesn’t mean they’re bad.

[@cobbler40]

Police investigating the Police doesn’t work.

[@Qwerts]

Its not police investigating the police though is it, its the IOPC... a bunch of civilians. So maybe we should revert to Police Policing the police? Because 99% of police officers are good people, its the 1% that tarnish the majority.

[@Eusantdac]

It never does but somehow this is the case all over the world. It's absolutely criminal!

[@quwipyui6519]

true

[@gemmag.2988]

Agree. Just like MPs investigating themselves. A farce.

[@emmas9928]

a case of *We investigated ourselves and found that we hadn’t done anything wrong*

[@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

The Met covered up and lost evidence when I complained.

[@abdulvallo2471]

How convenient for them hopefully this changes fast they will lose public trust

[@neilfoster814]

@@abdulvallo2471 the public lost respect and confidence in the pigs a long time ago!

[@scrappydoo7887]

That's the standard operating procedure for the police

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@neilfoster814 100%

[@adrianfleming3437]

All police force do this there not there to protect you they are there to protect the rich and powerful, from plebs like us who they don't want getting ideas.

[@paquitoignacio3449]

Police have their code of silence and protect their own fellow cops.

[@true282]

Unless their fellow cops are women.

[@mariatamas8168]

There is a moment in each persons life, when the person can decide what policy is for the people and when the policies are becoming insane. Every decent person can use discernament even in a sick society

[@KayMac1]

It's been this way for years but it's only getting worse. The only thing that gives me hope is their body worn cameras catch them out sometimes now

[@grannye7638]

The same in the NHS.

[@fighting4Justice479]

it's just the same at Pendle Borough Council who covered up for a so-called Pendle Mayor at a Colne pub incident see my youtube post

[@dcikaruga]

The IOPC is actually complicit in this, and plenty of people will tell you, my own experiences have been the same.

[@nickcoppard5335]

Totally agree iopc = it's only police corruption

[@MrB1923]

100%. Beyond corrupt.

[@xvsupremacy7190]

The IPOC needs dismantling , corrupt police judging corrupt police could never be effective . After almost a decade of being victimised as a Vulnerable person always the IPOC will defend the defenceless !

[@Sam-ce2lg]

100% I was illegally detained the officers seargent admitted it happened in writing and still has been ongoing I'm 2 weeks it will be one year they claim it when to professional standards but I still have had no response no update I have no clue what has happened the officer Ben Hollis clearly broke the law the worst thing is I have proof in writing and it's still on going .

[@dcikaruga]

@@Sam-ce2lg Been over 2 and a half years with my case, and 3 complaints followed, how do you think I feel?

[@lingth]

The moment those enforcing the law cannot be trusted by citizens, the system is beyond hope..

[@wleon4068]

It means that the system is broken. Remember, they are only police officers because they have been given a mandate from the people to 'police with consent'. This, they have not done for years. They have 'broken' that mandate and now none of them are trusted. People of colour have been telling you this for God knows how long. Now, white people are seeing for themselves, just what the police are really like, if they take a dislking to you.

[@neilfranklin5644]

We have a situation that if these things happened in Russia or China we would as a nation complain but now it happens here it is business as usual.

[@lingth]

It's like Hong Kong in the 60s.. even the Chief of Police took bribes..

[@xvsupremacy7190]

Tbh few would be left , the police per se are so corrupt !

[@fubar12345]

@@lingth It's like China now... Everyone takes bribes

[@bog_brush]

I'm civic minded but I see most police officers as a threat to my safety. They are never there when needed and just as likely to commit crimes than solve them.

[@susanbrown2909]

That’s true…they are more corrupt then the people they’re policing.

[@hughjass69933]

@@na_361 beta male

[@capta1ncaveman746]

Thats right they are corrupt and rotten to the core

[@888ssss]

their main job seems to be harassing the general public using fake terror laws. they need to be removed asap.

[@daisyhoward5472]

@@na_361 Don't see what your lack of sexual experience has to do with the convo but thanks for telling us I guess. 👍

[@defmax29]

Police should be punished more so than the public for crimes. And they still employ known offenders.

[@marimurphy3856]

Jailed just like any other criminals

[@FernandoThegreat]

“I’m not entirely shocked” - the police commissioner. Why didn’t you do something about it?

[@cidercik]

Every one of them knows. They know they have to 'protect' their colleagues, if not, you will be targeted. All police are corrupt, standing by while a colleague breaks the law makes them just as guilty.

[@mariatamas8168]

Exactly. If one can see what is going on ,than definetely van do something about it. Even if the price is loosing their jon or livelyhood. Even if their is blackmailing involved.

[@FernandoThegreat]

@@cidercik they’re not colleagues anymore they’re subordinates. Rank and discipline should be and apparently needs to be enforced.

[@SwagFlap]

And that's the POLICE CHIEF talking, imagine what an independent investigation would find. Probably that the police chief should also be on that list....

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Lordsake, give the new fella a chance/break..... 💦

[@clive373]

@@suzyqualcast6269 No, watch him like a hawk! And expect cover ups. I remember "operation countryman", cost millions, it found ENDEMIC corruption, but nobody jailed

[@ltipst2962]

@@suzyqualcast6269 he gets 1 year. The problem, Suzy, is these reports are rare and so what happens after 1 year and nothing changes? One dude goes into the HQ and asks for another? They'd laugh him out. We take the chance we have the moment it arises. Dont be so quick to defend the indefensible, especially when you dont know them. You're as bad as those you argue against.

[@jimmyohara2601]

he's the leader of the members on the list 😐😭

[@Nyjawonder]

@@suzyqualcast6269 The lady in charge before said exactly the same things as this dude

[@Helen-Ophion]

They have been misbehaving already for many years, nothing

[@cidercik]

They ruin lives. You are in greater danger of being killed by the police than someone killing an officer, especially if you are a black man in custody.

[@davidbarnard1126]

"hundreds of his officers should have been sacked" ARE THOSE OFFICERS GOING TO BE SACKED NOW ?

[@Cappellano]

How can the public be expected to trust the police with such cases of blatant disregard for the people they are commissioned to serve.

[@mikeyoung7660]

Rotten to the core

[@nikkioshea4139]

That poor woman while nursing her dying father they CALLED to tell her her daughter was dead. 😔🙏💙

[@Ricimer671]

My father always held the opinion that there were more criminals IN the Met. than out.

[@cidercik]

I'd trust a criminal more than the police. Biggest criminals going and always have been,

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

Many should be prosecuted too.

[@SuperNia88]

We need to have a 'me too' type movement for police malpractice as it happens far, far, far too often

[@true282]

#copstoo

[@fintonmainz7845]

Good idea.

[@Nous520]

That poor mother. Can you imagine knowing that some people were worried enough to ask police to intervene and they just didn’t care enough to respond but had they responded- it would probably have been the difference between life and death. Oh my god I feel sick and tearing up imagining this happening to me and my children, I don’t know how how she is getting through the days.

[@mcadamdavid1]

HERE IN MY SMALL TOWN IN STRATFORD ON AVON WARWICKSHIRE CV376SP IN U.K. THE POILICE ` METROPOLITAN` STOLE A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL, SOLD HER TO STRATFORD TOWN POLICE AS TRAFFICKED -HUMAN, TO ORGANISED CRIME KNOWING WITH INTENT, THE MOB WOULD MURDER HER ON MY STREET. AIMEE FOWLLER WAS HER NAME AGE 16 MURDERED AGE 18 TO ORDER . HER DAD IN AFGHANISTAN HER AND THE MOTHER AT HOME VILLAGE HEREFORD U.S.A.F. R.I.A.T MILITARY BASE , WHEN ABDUCTED SOLD TORTURED TWO YEARS, THEN RAN THROUGH THE STREETS OF STRATFORD TOWN CENTER , BEING STABBED NOW AND AGAIN SCREENING FOR HER BEGGING FOR HER LIFE HUNREDS WITNESS AND A HUNDRED MALE FEMALE AND CHILD GYPSIES SANGUINE INBREDS CUT HER UP INTO PEICES ALIVE PAGAN STYLER. .IN THE CAR PARK AT WOODMAN COURT PO-CODE CV376SP. THE POLICE DID DOOR KNOCKING 8 MONTHS AFTER THE BRUTAL MURDER [ C.I. D ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA ]> ,AS DAMAGE LIMITATIONS EXERCISE, BECAUSE POLICE INVOLVED. DID YOU SEE HEAR THIS ? I `AND THREE OTHERS GAVE STATEMENTS AGAINST ALL INVOLVED ..... ATTACKED BY THIS SANGUINARY INBRED GYPSY MOBB..RESULT 3 POLICE REMOVED FOR TRAFFICKING . 8 GYPSIES SENTENCED 2 YEARS 3 GYPSIES SENTENCED 15 YEARS EACH, THATS NOT JUSTICE OF THE HUNDREDS OF SANGUINE GYPSIES WHO WENT TO DO THIS MANY TIMES SINCE THEN.

[@fintonmainz7845]

ALWAYS record every interaction with the police. Even if you're just going into a police station to get a form stamped. Only criminal police will object to being recorded.

[@ltipst2962]

I got targeted 3 times in 1 month. Why? I can only assume my car got tagged as a dealers car. Ultimately it ended with my window down a tiny bit while the officer clearly wanted to confirm my name alone. Each. Time. They. Lied. They lied about why they pulled me, they lied about what they saw around them and they lied to my face. I KNOW a bully who joined the police who, at 14, beat up a 6 y/o. Hes a copper!! Its a joke dude. The one who beat up his dog still drives around here and is still a copper. Desk job no doubt mostly, until we had all forgot then back on streets. American wives of officers, I believe 40% suffered domestic abuse. To top that off, I have physically witnessed police officers begging for firearms. Do they need them? No. No.

[@AaAa-sw5os]

Ah yes! Thanks for the reminder. I must get those forms stamped today.

[@fintonmainz7845]

@@lynchthis1 only Wayne Couzens supporters agree with you.

[@888ssss]

i never ever speak to them anymore. they drew a line i will not cross.

[@patsanters2741]

@@ltipst2962 Same in UK i know an officer from Scotland who went from cheating with trying to get suspect/s sent to prison when innocent ..to that of then being found out telling blatant lies in a Scottish court of law in Scotland .to later working with a security firm in Edinburgh to then working again as a this time Met police officer within Met in London ..How do they work this one out ?

[@lorrainemitchell9093]

My daughter was beaten up, domestic violence related. When to police they f every thing up from start, didn't sent evidence to court, court wouldn't go ahead, said criminal got away with it even though he brags about how violent he is.

[@maryminty4]

So very sorry, it thoroughly shames yo doesnt it, perhaps for a few years police and staff reporting on their co workers should be rewarded as opposed to being condemned

[@wleon4068]

Really hope that you and your daughter get justice here. Although, you should not hold your breath.

[@leonarddarker2798]

NEVER trust a cop. NEVER!

[@thewhippetwhispereretal4438]

Will MPs and Peers be held to the same standards proposed for Police Officers?

[@EpicOsiris]

Forget hundreds it's more like thousands needs to be sacked

[@Huh_What_Who]

3:10 "I'm not entirely shocked, I'm just angry," says the Met Police Commissioner. If the fact that 20% of your staff are causing acts of misconduct and you're not shocked about it shows how bad our forces are. #EndTheMetropolition

[@jimmyohara2601]

he's just BUTT another bigot ☹️

[@wleon4068]

Why is he not 'shocked'? By his comment, alone, he must know that this has become a culture within the Met - which is why he is not shocked.

[@na_361]

Virgins

[@cidercik]

20% is a joke. Every single one of them is corrupt. They protect each other, no matter who's life is ruined. Those that stand by and say nothing as just as guilty.

[@barbararice6650]

So you're going to go out to public parks to stop black men killing women in the middle of the night are you.... thought fucking not 😁

[@jKDC1987]

So sorry for the mum and family of Natalie. Unforgivable

[@jenhardman9638]

The police officers need to be reminded, they are responsible for the public. That's why they have jobs, the people pay their wages. Not the government. If they want to be respected by the public, respect for them has to be earned. It works both ways, in the beginning they were a part of their local community, bring back our British bobbies they were much loved and respected by all, even the criminals they knew what was going on, the public worked with them.

[@rideyorkshire417]

No other force will be any different. Public servants not servants of the State.

[@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

Unfortunately that’s just PR; they are servants of the state.

[@BeltandBraces]

state paramilitary police not fit for purpose, rent a goon/ brutaliser of the Public worse than China, the english bobby?

[@jamesthomas7928]

Another report exposing how appalling the Met is but nothing will change as we well know.

[@Atomsk102]

UK police need Civilian Review Boards, like some cities in the US have.

[@ltipst2962]

They have fake versions here. Really fake versions. Basically gang members telling other gang members to chill out and go quiet(have pints and beat wives) until this all blows over

[@lenahill6662]

It's no killing peoples in the US?

[@mutatis-mutandis]

The US is NOT a model- with the world's highest incarceration rate, and shootings. Try to take Germany as way to follow.

[@TheBandit7613]

"After we investigated ourselves, we found no wrong doing" No kidding?

[@_caseyjames]

The last place I want to be emulating on any type of Police policy the United States

[@marimurphy3856]

They all cover up for each other seen it with my dad they threw him down stairs broke all his leg bones they are working and they have conviction when did police ever get a job with convictions awful and despicable.

[@paulcowell7588]

This country is crumbling in front of our eyes...

[@bluebottle1617]

The Metropolitan Police is too big and too unwieldy. One solution is to restore the county of Middlesex and county of London and split the Met in two. However, there are likely to be objections from predictable enough quarters.

[@wendymoore7641]

Let’s see it happen, these bad cops have been running amok for years, corruption is off the scale. Name and shame and jail !

[@dan.m4384]

Shout out to Auditing Britain, DJ Audits and a few others. 👊

[@zen4men]

Crimes committed by Police should incur penalties three times as severe as for the population, rather than a third as at present.

[@sarahbradshaw2510]

It's hightime that all tax payers,public & government funded services/departments like the NHS, DWP, county councils, local authorities,school's & CCG all have similar contracts of employment, salary scales/bands as well as similar policies in regards to misconduct, discrimination, sexual harassment etc etc which will enable their practice, behaviour & actions towards others to be more transparent. It should also encourage them not to only work together but to provide a better & more streamlined service to those- me, you & us seeing as it's our taxes that pays for them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander

[@mcadamdavid1]

HERE IN MY SMALL TOWN IN STRATFORD ON AVON WARWICKSHIRE CV376SP IN U.K. THE POILICE ` METROPOLITAN` STOLE A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL, SOLD HER TO STRATFORD TOWN POLICE AS TRAFFICKED -HUMAN, TO ORGANISED CRIME KNOWING WITH INTENT, THE MOB WOULD MURDER HER ON MY STREET. AIMEE FOWLLER WAS HER NAME AGE 16 MURDERED AGE 18 TO ORDER . HER DAD IN AFGHANISTAN HER AND THE MOTHER AT HOME VILLAGE HEREFORD U.S.A.F. R.I.A.T MILITARY BASE , WHEN ABDUCTED SOLD TORTURED TWO YEARS, THEN RAN THROUGH THE STREETS OF STRATFORD TOWN CENTER , BEING STABBED NOW AND AGAIN SCREENING FOR HER BEGGING FOR HER LIFE HUNREDS WITNESS AND A HUNDRED MALE FEMALE AND CHILD GYPSIES SANGUINE INBREDS CUT HER UP INTO PEICES ALIVE PAGAN STYLER. .IN THE CAR PARK AT WOODMAN COURT PO-CODE CV376SP. THE POLICE DID DOOR KNOCKING 8 MONTHS AFTER THE BRUTAL MURDER [ C.I. D ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA ]> ,AS DAMAGE LIMITATIONS EXERCISE, BECAUSE POLICE INVOLVED. DID YOU SEE HEAR THIS ? I `AND THREE OTHERS GAVE STATEMENTS AGAINST ALL INVOLVED ..... ATTACKED BY THIS SANGUINARY INBRED GYPSY MOBB..RESULT 3 POLICE REMOVED FOR TRAFFICKING . 8 GYPSIES SENTENCED 2 YEARS 3 GYPSIES SENTENCED 15 YEARS EACH, THATS NOT JUSTICE OF THE HUNDREDS OF SANGUINE GYPSIES WHO WENT TO DO THIS MANY TIMES SINCE THEN.

[@Gilberto90]

I like how the number of misconduct allegations is used as damning evidence at one point but as evidence of unfairness at another. An excellent example of the doublespeak of modern Britain.

[@moffat5914]

its only actual misconduct when its white cops didn't you know that by now? only white people can do bad things

[@judithmatthews8460]

Mark Rowley said when he was acting Assistant Commissioner he hadn’t heard about incidents such as those raised in the report. That beggars belief because he must be the only person who wasn’t aware. Yet he’s in charge of fixing this mess. He’s like a plumber who says he didn’t see a leak and didn’t know his shoes were wet, so he went away without doing anything.

[@maricajohnson1608]

What about Operation Grange..over forteen million pound spent on a missing child ( Madeleine McCann case ) who warned Colin Sutton not to take the case on if he was offered it because he would not be allowed to take the case back to the beginning...The public have a right to know how all this money has been spent and what Grange have been doing over the past seventeen years....

[@Keithlfpieterse]

The UK is in a situation articulated by King Crimson long, long ago, in "Epitaph": "...The walls on which the prophets wrote....is cracking at the seams....."

[@ZolaClyde]

When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams ….. Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl, a cracked and broken path

[@Keithlfpieterse]

@@ZolaClyde : "...if we make it we can all look back and laugh...but I fear tomorrow......" Thanks for a GREAT response! Your response time is superb. Keep Well!

[@ZolaClyde]

@@Keithlfpieterse Perfect choice … it’s a great song (+ I love King Crimson, they’re amazing.) Be well, keep your sanity intact! :)

[@Keithlfpieterse]

@@ZolaClyde : Thanks for the footnote. As for protecting my sanity...my survival instinct has served me well for almost SEVEN DECADES and I am not about to jump from a ledge. In parting, "Great minds think alike...fools seldom differ!" Hahaha!

[@downhilltwofour0082]

Every case should be completed within 120 days. It is ridiculous that some cases take 15 months!

[@nickcoppard5335]

They string it out deliberately, it is just one of thier tactics , my result , , on the balance of probability we uphold your complaint , unfortunately due to the passage of time we can make no recommendations, so DELIBERATE heel dragging by the police gets the result they want

[@ianhill4585]

"We'll slow down the process until you give up in frustration.".

[@sahraali6794]

My case took five years and six months to conclude without concrete evidence.

[@nickcoppard5335]

@@sahraali6794 I had thier lies in writing up to superintendent level when they realised they tried threatening , when that didn't work it was stonewall and evasion , no wonder they have lost all public confidence , many offences can now not get a jury trial , I wonder why

[@Plexippuspetersi92]

They're lucky they are merely being sacked. Any of us muggles pull that shite and we're going to jail.

[@ababbington1]

I’m gutted. As a father of one, a 24 year old daughter I cannot believe that such incompetence goes unpunished. I don’t subscribe to the fact that most police officers are useless/bent but do think they should be held accountable. I was following the Sarah Everard case and I was badly affected when I learned all the details of her murder. I imagined my daughter being in Sarah’s position and really couldn’t come to terms with it. Our police vetting standards need to be a lot higher and those officers that veer off the path of honesty need to be dealt with. I still think of Sarah as I do Claudia Lawrence and their families. 😪😪

[@Stuboy]

You should turn up at majority of police stations stand there with a camera , you'll have all the assistance & suspicious questioning you need within minutes , however real crime will go unnoticed , I believe defund the police make them work for their privaladges

[@scotty101ire]

The Met has been as bent as f==k for decades come back in another decade and nothing at will have changed the rugby set still running amoke inside the force no checks no balances and as a police man or women speak out and your career and maybe life is at risk

[@susanbrown2909]

It’s true unfortunately…

[@marimurphy3856]

Rotten to the core from top to bottom.

[@andypandy955]

I was a serving police officer and I find this disgusting. If you can't rely on the police who is left.

[@alexmitchell9336]

She's one of the strongest souls I've ever seen. Her love for her grand children will give her strength.

[@niciolamyelwee6646]

Sadly you can say it's racism, misogyny, homophobia ect but what it really is bad people being out for themselves.

[@VadoVoodoo]

..Bad people in uniform.

[@clive373]

1. "I honestly believe I command the most honourable large city police service in the world. I believe that the overwhelming majority of the 27,000 men and women in the Met are honest, they are decent, they are brave ... However, I do have a minority of officers who are corrupt, dishonest, unethical ... They commit crimes, they neutralise evidence in important cases and they betray police operations and techniques to criminals. These bad officers sap the morale of their honest colleagues and they do immense damage to public confidence ... they are very difficult to target and prosecute." This is what Sir Paul Condon, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner told us on December 4, 1997.[1]

[@makeitwork3929]

I think the only way the UK police force can go forward is to first flatten that massively tall hierarchy structure, change the recruitment system to a strict entry over quantity system with heavy law knowledge content, redesign the training procedure so that pcs are assessed after training on a continous basis and finally seperate the complaints system totally from the police and make all routes totally clear of any hurdles for people wanting take their proven complaint to a court of law.

[@seanohartaigh2209]

British judicial system is unacceptable, always

[@maggieedwards3951]

Should be sacked but will they be ?

[@godsgod1677]

I'm a mental access assessor (or mentalist), I've noticed a large degree of inferiority complexes amongst police. They know there's no repercussions for their undignified actions and this leads to why their actions are often obviously immoral.

[@inchristalone90600]

I wish the police would overcome colour prejudice it just ja e to stop. THEY MUST ALL BE BLACK FROM NOW ON AND MAY HEAVEN FORESEE IT.

[@cidercik]

The police are professional gaslighters. They lie, only to escalate situations. Gives them a thrill to see that people are completely powerless when the police lie, as police are given the benefit of the doubt in courts. Keep filming every transaction with the police!

[@loukwo9054]

Not surprising, we experience the institutional bullying and discrimination all the times even beyond London.

[@vikingcockney.69]

What a startling revelation.......

[@raymondmassey6884]

So - Is he gonna sack them?? - Course not!!

[@aliadeelsquad232]

HE HAS

[@raymondmassey6884]

@@aliadeelsquad232 He has what? Sacked HUNDREDS? I'm sure I would have heard? If I'm wrong, I apologise in advance.

[@geegnosis8888]

Good. Now you should sack them not just talk sbout it.

[@TheBandit7613]

Investigations should be done by independent organizations, that said, everyone, including cops are entitled to due process under the law. Investigations should never be done by the organization the accusation is filed. Maybe a special group of citizens can oversee the investigations.

[@nickcoppard5335]

EX police should be excluded from iopc , or remove the I

[@TheMirrorGuy]

What happend to Natalie Shotter, and why didn't the woman who was concerned about Natalie stay with her, and why was she acting strange? The other officers were already dealing with a case, was there workload too much? Lots of accusations, but very little info on the case. If the Officers were cleared of any wrongdoings, it could br they didn't do anything wrong.

[@horacioaguilera3478]

Every time i see a story from uk dealing with police or political "misconduct" , there is just a repeat of the narrative... But never any facts or information

[@adiem1653]

True

[@nickcoppard5335]

Maybe the cops dun it ? Probably !

[@cobbler40]

The met is amazing in the fact that it never changes unlike everything else.

[@patsanters2741]

Not just the Met its all over the country inc Fife police in Scotland are known for such ..If u put in a complaint against the police its always police look into matters and its always washed aside with lies ..Should be always a completely independent inquiry only ..This has went on for many years and its a waste time putting in a complaint against any officers even when theyre seen as Guilty in a court of law with lieing to try get an innocent guy jailed for a crime he never commited ..Many cid police are bent to the core ..

[@ltipst2962]

@@amethyst1826 Agreed. They should fire a solid chunk I'm thinking more like 1/3rd and serve it as a warning.

[@newblackdog7827]

@@amethyst1826 “Caught up with the times how”!? Having a revulsion of homosexuality isn’t a reason for a police officer to lose their job, for example.

[@waynereid9471]

@@newblackdog7827 not sure about that, I’d worry about how that officer treats the gay community

[@wleon4068]

It never changes in order to make itself better. By all intents and purposes, the vast majority of them are criminals dressed in police uniforms - going by their record.

[@pete6724]

I've been saying this for years, become a cop you become a criminal with a badge and get away with most of your crime's.

[@anneaylmer1655]

If the Commissioner knows about these cases, why are they not long gone? They wonder why recruiting in the Met is low. Ever thought that this is because they do not want to work in a corrupt service, where illegal acts are ignored. Even if 10% are sacked, it would still leave 90% that truly wanted to serve the community.

[@DavidThomas-fb8bq]

They've lost the public trust.

[@notcherbane3218]

In America we deal with the same thing, the term internal affairs is an oxymoron, when police kill unless there is a huge outcry there is only a cursory investigation you cannot have a true accountability unless it comes from an outside objective source, when it comes to law enforcement accountability it is baked into the system that the police always get the benefit of the doubt and the system makes it difficult for a true investigation to be had and when there is abuses there let go for a long period of time in many cases and only when it makes national news is there any attempt at a accountability. In the George Floyd incident the main cop that killed, had multiple complaints against him before this happened of excessive force.

[@AdeboFunkyVoodoo]

Tell us something that we didn't already know.

[@Christinebanks11]

Who exactly gets to decide what is and is not misogyny? What gives them the right ? What makes them an expert ?

[@JOEFABULOUS.]

Common decency it's not rocket science

[@sdwone]

Was that a pathetic attempt to protect these wankers?!

[@thingstodoinguernseychanne4950]

I hope he dose the right thing and sacks a lot of them oficers that needs to be gone should be

[@khalidjatuk1]

They killed that poor Brazilian in the tube his memorial is outside Stockwell Tube Station he was a poor Electrician unarmed why ? Why look him in that way that was unacceptable 😢

[@colinleatham9143]

NEVER forget the way they treated you during the 'pandemic' lockdowns.

[@sentinel80]

Unfortunately police have power complexes, they to believe the public should do whatever they say, legal or not. They will ask for your ID even though there is no crime, if you don’t some will then try the obstruction, interference route which of course is just intimidation. Stand your ground and always record them 👍

[@DavidPatersonPortraits]

Have a completely independent investigation system with no ex-police or serving police on it. Sack all those officers who need sacking and prosecute all officers accused of crimes. Remove qualified immunity and require individual officers to have liability insurance.

[@ashleyparsman3093]

A continued troubled state of policing

[@TenFalconsMusic]

Not to mention that they aren't solving crimes.

[@PS-Straya_M8]

No such thing as an honest cop ALL are rotten to the core!

[@Lincoln_Bio]

"Ok, we're willing to concede significant numbers of us are, indeed, bastards" - The Cops

[@Nailnuke]

If hundteds of police officers need to be sacked / prosecuted, Why Arn't They ?

[@VadoVoodoo]

Because they close ranks for each other, drag their feet and kick the ball into the long grass over and over again.

[@gmcg246]

I as a 78 year old londoner I'm fed up with the metropolitan police . I think every police constable need to be throughly investigated named and shamed.

[@fuckbankers]

Sarah Everard R.I.P.

[@marimurphy3856]

💔😢💖🙏

[@stevemears3619]

Facts !!! . They are an absolute disgrace !! .

[@Patriot95379]

I have written two letters to mark rowley about two officers on my estate bullying vulnerable adults, swearing and shouting at people and he did nothing. Apparently it was nothing to be of concern! It’s a disgrace.

[@mutatis-mutandis]

You need investigating magistrates, who will control police-like in most European (ehem, EU) countries.

[@magsmum1963]

What is the point. The masons are everywhere and will carry on doing what they have been doing for hundreds of years. They have taken over every level of the law in every country

[@cobbler40]

But will they be sacked ?

[@NatalieElizabethBeech]

11 accusations? 1 ought to be enough to get rid, he is a police officer ffs.

[@random6809]

What a great idea. Criminals simply keep accusing each officer until there are none left. You haven't thought that through have you. Without evidence, an accusation is just that, an accusation. Police officers will receive LOTS of complaints from criminals trying to play the system. Get a grip.

[@leanne8493]

This has been going on for decades 😢

[@emperorstar765]

Power use & Abused!

[@Greg_Romford]

There is a reason they are referred to as the filth…

[@Boo-pv4hn]

The problen is this is only one police station, there are issues stemming from the top all over. All policing needs dismantling and rebuilding

[@Patriot95379]

I have two officers that get drunk and terrorise our neighbourhood. I have voice recordings and pictures, you honestly wouldn’t believe it! It’s disgusting. If it was you or I we would be banged up pronto.

[@chuckfinnley4397]

Police beein corrupt and not properly monitored how surprising espiaclly in the UK, where everybody is starting an stabbing fight at the count of 3

[@RandomName-my2uo]

Eh, only in shitty places

[@daipigeon7561]

There will be more cover ups mark my words

[@Pennywise180]

The MET is not fit for purpose ,get rid of Charring Cross,Lewisham and Chadwell Heath stations all sacked no 2nd chances.That will make all other stations in the MET sit up and take notice.

[@paulwood3460]

The met should be dismantled and re-built. New terms of employment -> no union, same standard for dismissal as that in the real forces. Jail term automatically doubled if found guilty of corruption, and tripled if found guilty of assault on an innocent member of the public. It’s the only way.

[@daisyhoward5472]

What we really need is another report about this report.

[@abubanger5182]

DC Vincent O'Shea of Special Branch Metropolitan Police. Member of Combat 18. Reported to Metropolitan police professional standards but no action taken.

[@ShitStainedBallSack]

More like thousands

[@alessandrolocascio2226]

Too little too late?

[@Sunshineliquid]

It’s not just the MET trust me