LONDON, Jan 17 — Britain’s largest police force was on Monday facing fresh scrutiny about its vetting procedures after an officer admitted 24 counts of rape and a string of...
LONDON, Jan 17 — Britain’s largest police force was on Monday facing fresh scrutiny about its vetting procedures after an officer admitted 24 counts of rape and a string of sexual assaults over nearly two decades.
Reporting restrictions were lifted on his admission at a previous hearing in December of 43 charges involving 11 other women, including 20 counts of rape, over a 16-year period to September 2020.The Met, which polices a population of more than eight million people over 620 square miles in the British capital, called Carrick a “prolific, serial sex offender”.
They found he was already on police systems for a series of off-duty incidents before and after he joined the force. His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary Matt Parr found it was “too easy for the wrong people to both join and stay in the police”. Met failings came to light after Wayne Couzens, who like Carrick was an officer in an armed unit protecting MPs and foreign diplomats, killed Sarah Everard in March 2021.
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