Met police’s shame as hidden culture of racism and misogyny revealed in undercover TV exposé

Evening Standard

Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley has apologised after serving officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims in an undercover BBC documentary.

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00:00Two and a half years ago, the Casey report found the Met Police was institutionally racist,

00:13homophobic and misogynistic. After hearing concerns about officers' behaviour at Charing

00:18Cross Police Station, Panorama sent in an undercover reporter to investigate.

00:23This is a detention officer talking to a police officer about a man in custody accused of

00:34rape and domestic violence, but a decision's been made to release him on bail.

00:53A few minutes later on her break, she's still unhappy about what Sergeant McIlvenny just

01:05said and the decision to bail the man.

01:27She's not wrong in her description of him, frankly.

01:29She seems to be quite angry that he's just dismissed it.

01:32Yeah, she is angry. And I'm not surprised.

01:37It's little wonder that rape and domestic abuse investigations have such a low success rate.

01:47Because despite all the fantastic work that's been done, you've got idiots that you come

01:53up against like this. Clearly, these individuals are simply not getting the message.

01:59Panorama wrote to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley detailing our evidence. He told Panorama the

02:05behaviour in this programme is disgraceful and the Met has taken immediate and unprecedented

02:09action. Eight officers and one staff member have been suspended and another two officers

02:14removed from frontline duties. He says the Met has dismantled the custody team at Charing

02:18Cross, made changes to local leadership and is looking more broadly at other Met detention

02:23teams. Panorama wrote to Sergeant Joe McIlvenny, but he did not respond.

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