Revealed: The grim list of sex abuse claims against British police officers

The Observer ^ | March 21 | Mark Townsend and Chaminda Jayanetti

[RandFan]

An extraordinary catalogue of sexual misconduct allegations against Metropolitan police officers, including claims that one had sex with a rape victim and another assaulted a domestic abuse survivor, are revealed in documents obtained by the Observer.

The disclosures will intensify pressure on the Met after its officers manhandled women at last Saturday’s vigil for Sarah Everard where hundreds demanded the right to be safe on London’s streets.

Organisers of the vigil on Clapham Common subsequently accused the force of losing the faith of women and being unable to tackle its “institutional misogyny”.

Campaigners said the latest revelations amplified concern among women that the police cannot be trusted to protect their safety.

According to the documents, released under freedom of information laws, the rape victim complained that the investigating officer “took advantage of her vulnerability and had sex with her on two occasions”. The officer was subsequently dismissed.

There was a total of 594 complaints against Met employees between 2012 and 2018, of which 119 were upheld. Among those was a Met officer who was dismissed after allegedly pretending to be a woman online “to advance his sexual proclivities and also film a woman apparently having non-consensual sex with a male in a public park”.

Another officer was forced to leave the Met over allegations that he was having a “sexual relationship with a resident in a women’s refuge”, a safe house where victims of domestic violence seek sanctuary.

Other serious cases include an officer who met a woman while on duty and later visited her home where sexual intercourse led to an allegation of rape. He received a verbal warning and management advice, the least severe censure an officer can receive following a misconduct hearing.

[Eleutheria5]

A policeman’s lot is quite a happy one.

[Eleutheria5]

Possible careers for Mario Cuomo after he leaves office:

1. London Bobby
2. Nursing home orderly
3. Unemployed gigolo

[mewzilla]

And Cressida Dick’s job is secure.

[Eleutheria5]

Did I say Mario? I date myself. I meant handy Andy the mass-murdering octopus Cuomo. You can see how I might mistakenly confuse him with Mario.

[Pikachu_Dad]

There was a total of 594 complaints against Met employees between 2012 and 2018, of which 119 were upheld.

A 7 year period ?!?

Less than 17 valid complaints a year?

[.30Carbine]

The real worldwide pandemic is sexual violence against women.

Please God, arrive quickly to deliver us from this mess.

[MercyFlush]

Someone from the London Police will be along shortly to threaten us for criticizing them.

[bray]

Fortunately this never happens in Hollywierd or the media.

[Albion Wilde]

and also film a woman apparently having non-consensual sex with a male in a public park”.

"having non-consensual sex"????? Really? This is what passes for the English language in the leftist media? Is there some problem with calling a rape "a rape"?

Does the fact that it was a woman "having the non-consensual sex" with a male make it less of a rape, since there was no opportunity for screaming headlines about same-sex or transsex fornicators?

Or does the reporter mean to imply that she owed him, because heterorape-not-rape. Where's the investigative journalism? Had he paid for dinner?

Did he use a condom, or ask permission to non-consensually sexify her, hence the confusion?

Did she forget to say no, nor ask him to text her on the Consent to Sex app?