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It comes as the review also shared that there may be more officers like killer Wayne Couzens and serial rapist David Carrick in the Metropolitan Police.
In the review by Baroness Louise Casey, she found that the Metropolitan Police failed to protect the public from officers who abuse women, organisational changes have put women and children at greater risk and female officers and staff routinely experience sexism.
The review also found that there are racist officers and staff adding that a “deep-seated homophobia” exists in the organisation.
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Met Police described as racist, misogynist and homophobic in new report
Baroness Casey was commissioned to review the Met following the murder of Sarah Everard.
Asked if there could be more officers like Couzens and Carrick in the force, she said: “I cannot sufficiently assure you that that is not the case.”
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he accepts the “diagnosis” of prejudice in the force, but would not use the term institutional because he views it as politicised and ambiguous.
Speaking to PA new agency, Baroness Casey said she was disappointed that he would not accept the term, but said she will wait to see what action the force takes in the coming weeks and months.
The new report’s findings of institutionally racist echo that of the Macpherson Inquiry in 1999, which took place after Stephen Lawrence’s murder and the abject failures in how the Met investigated his death.
Since the 1999 inquiry, the Met has remained largely white and male, the review found.
The police force was also accused of homophobia over the failure to stop serial killer Stephen Port after he took the life of his first victim and went on to murder three more men, but force bosses denied there was an issue.
Relatives of the victims have called for a public inquiry into the force in the wake of the report.
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