LONDON: Campaigners on Friday (Jan 20) dumped a basket of 1,071 rotten apples outside the headquarters of Britain's biggest police force, in protest at officers accused of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls. The Metropolitan Police said this week that 1,071 officers had been or are under i
LONDON: Campaigners on Friday dumped a basket of 1,071 rotten apples outside the headquarters of Britain's biggest police force, in protest at officers accused of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.one of its officers pleaded guilty to 24 rapes and a string of other sex offencesThat came less than two years after another serving officer with the London force kidnapped, raped and murdered a young woman, rocking public confidence in the police.
"At the moment, as women and girls, how can we - if we experience a crime - feel confident to go the police knowing that the person we speak to may be a perpetrator?" she said. Fionnuala Kennedy, head of Wimbledon High School, said the failings of the Met Police to"stand between the vulnerable public and these officers wielding unchecked power" left her"breathless with anger".
Both David Carrick, who pleaded guilty this week, and Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 and was jailed for life, served in the Met's armed unit protecting MPs and foreign diplomats.
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