Met Police officer boasts ‘I’ve paid good money to see things like that’ after woman in police fancy dress arrested

Undercover filming reveals racism and misogyny in the Met Police.Credit: BBC Panorama

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00:00Whistleblowers have told Panorama that the Met still has a problem with misogyny and racism

00:05and pointed us towards Charing Cross police station.

00:20The sergeant booking the man into custody is Joe McIlvenny.

00:24He's an old hand with nearly 20 years service in the Met.

00:30A woman's just been brought in, arrested for being drunk and disorderly.

00:43She's wearing a fancy dress police uniform.

00:47Sergeant McIlvenny seems particularly interested in her.

00:52What's that? She's wearing a leather police outfit.

00:55I paid money to go to clubs and see women dressed like this.

01:10That's Sergeant McIlvenny making the sound of a siren as he heads to where the woman is going to be searched.

01:15He's going for it.

01:24I've just never seen him react that way to an arrested person being brought into detention.

01:28He shot up from his seat, he looked on the CCTV monitor, and then he went down to the cage to oversee the search of the woman.

01:37It made me feel uncomfortable.