London police face sanctions – BBC revelations of toxic behaviour by police officers

The caput of the Metropolitan Police (Met) of London apologized yesterday, Wednesday, for the “abhorrent, criminal” behaviour by constabulary officers who displayed racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia successful a study conducted by an undercover newsman for the BBC.

“The behaviour portrayed successful this programme is reprehensible and wholly unacceptable,” said commissioner Mark Rowley successful a connection released up of the broadcast of the BBC’s Panorama quality programme.

Nine constabulary officers and 1 unit subordinate person already been suspended, portion 2 others were removed from the beforehand enactment aft the BBC published the report, Rowley said. “I sincerely regret this ‘toxic legacy,”
He added.

BBC writer Rory Bibb spent 7 months, until January 2025, moving arsenic a civilian situation serviceman successful the detention wing of Charing Cross constabulary presumption successful cardinal London.

During this time, “police officers suggested shooting migrants, boasted astir using force and were indifferent to accusations of rape,” the BBC said successful a statement.

Several constabulary officers were filmed connected hidden cameras making shocking comments, specified arsenic that a detainee whose visa had expired “deserved a slug successful the head” and that Algerian and Somali migrants were “scum.”

The Metropolitan Police has been astatine the halfway of a bid of scandals successful caller years, including the kidnapping, rape, and execution of selling manager Sara Everard successful 2021 by a serving constabulary serviceman who was aboriginal sentenced to beingness successful prison.

She had pledged a purge successful her ranks and restoring nationalist trust aft a study recovered the constabulary were institutionally racist, homophobic, and sexist.

While acknowledging that determination were “systemic, taste and managerial failures”, Rowley asserted that the Metropolitan Police had carried retired “the biggest anti-corruption cognition successful the past of British policing”.

The squad successful complaint of detainees astatine Charing Cross constabulary presumption has been disbanded, and Rowley revealed that “nearly 1,500 constabulary officers and unit who did not conscionable our standards” person been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police’s workforce of 40,000 successful the past 3 years.