Law Met Police Investigating 800 Officers For Sexual & Domestic Abuse Claims, as PC Admits 49 Offences

[irish_thug]

Fair enough. This is one topic I tend to go overboard with admittedly.

Understandably so

 

[Fugazy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-64293158

The Met Police is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers, the commissioner has said.

It comes after PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes.

Sir Mark Rowley announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.

He also apologised to Carrick's victims for the force's failings.

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The Met said a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff were being reviewed from the last 10 years to make sure the appropriate decisions were made.

It can now be reported that Carrick had already pleaded guilty in December to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, and admitted the final six counts on Monday.

He committed the offences against 12 women across two decades.

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Despite having five public complaints to his name, he passed checks to become a firearms officer when he transferred to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in 2009 and he was vetted again in 2017.

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Just read that last sentence I've posted.

Holy fuck.

This is very real evidence of immense corruption in the Metropolitan Police. Bear in mind the Met Police is just Greater London alone...

It's been said for long enough that the police as an organisation here in the UK constantly covers for and protects it's officers, but on sexual and domestic violence???

Unreal.

What's a firearms officer in England?

 

[The Big Yin]

What's a firearms officer in England?

An officer with a firearm

 

[Fugazy]

An officer with a firearm

I'm a little shocked that not all officers are armed, or have a firearm in their vehicle, or an armed partner.

Pretty wild imo.

 

[The Big Yin]

Depends entirely on where the offence lands on the slide-rule of "sexual assault". I'm no rapist apologist, but definitions get changed way to frequently to go painting with too big a brush.

This is misunderstood by many people. Sexual assault can literally be 2 officers in a room, one touches the others shoulder and if they believe the person doing the touching was doing it with sexual intent..... A sexual assault is recorded

Male and female gang members, after arrest where they have been cuffed and searched, will put in allegations of sexual assault against the officers as they know each allegation is fully investigated and wastes hours of police time. They also get a marker against their name so officers next time are extra cautious in being near them for fear of allegations.

 

[The Big Yin]

I'm a little shocked that not all officers are armed, or have a firearm in their vehicle, or an armed partner.

Pretty wild imo.

It's not really a massive deal as police used to be brawlers. It was common for your local criminal to have an honest fist fight with an officer and remain civil afterwards.

Whilst guns are still pretty rare these days, a lot of foreign criminals use knives, razor blades and dirty syringes to threaten officers. Tazer is now common place.

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This is still one of my favourite pictures. A Glasgow detective smacking the shit out of a young bawbag with his bare hands who tried to attack him with a straight razor

 

[650lb Sumo]

https://news.sky.com/story/serving-...eads-guilty-to-child-sexual-offences-12794837

PC Hussain Chehab, 22, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 - as well as three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, and one of engaging in sexual communication with a child.

He appeared at Wood Green Crown Court in north London yesterday and was released on bail for sentencing on 17 March.

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A number of digital devices were seized and examined, during which a number of indecent images were found and he was further arrested in October 2021 and suspended from duty.

Analysis of further devices revealed messages between Chehab and a 14-year-old girl engaging in sexual communication. She later provided evidence to police that they had entered into a sexual relationship in 2019 when she was 14 years old.

Detective Chief Superintendent Caroline Haines said: "Our thoughts foremost today are with the young girls who Chehab exploited and took advantage of for his own sexual gratification.

"These offences are made all the more sickening by the fact that some of the image offences were committed while PC Chehab was in a role as a Safer Schools officer attached to a secondary school in Enfield between May 2021 and his arrest in August 2021."

 

[650lb Sumo]

Policeman whose job was to catch paedophiles was himself a paedophile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64610583

Det Con James Jordan was based at the Thorpe Wood Police Station in Peterborough

A child safeguarding detective who downloaded sexual images from his own police force's files has been jailed.

James Jordan, 32, was working as a detective constable when he accessed Cambridgeshire Police's confidential systems.

He viewed videos of children being abused and images of women in voyeurism cases.

He also copied sex videos from the case of a young girl he was investigating, St Albans Crown Court heard.

When his police laptop was examined, officers found he had hidden images in a One Note file, under the title 'Hotel Greece.'

Jordan was jailed for four years after admitting eight offences: five of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of a child and three of misconduct in a public office.

The cost of the police investigation into Jordan and dealing with 28 victims who have received apologies was £400,000 said the prosecutor.

Jailing him, Judge Michael Roques said: "This was a violation of a very high degree of trust placed in you. You were not only a police officer, you were a member of child abuse and safeguarding unit.

Jordan must register as a sex offender and abide by the terms of a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

 

[aries]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-64293158

The Met Police is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers, the commissioner has said.

It comes after PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes.

Sir Mark Rowley announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.

He also apologised to Carrick's victims for the force's failings.

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The Met said a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff were being reviewed from the last 10 years to make sure the appropriate decisions were made.

It can now be reported that Carrick had already pleaded guilty in December to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, and admitted the final six counts on Monday.

He committed the offences against 12 women across two decades.

--

Despite having five public complaints to his name, he passed checks to become a firearms officer when he transferred to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in 2009 and he was vetted again in 2017.

--

Just read that last sentence I've posted.

Holy fuck.

This is very real evidence of immense corruption in the Metropolitan Police. Bear in mind the Met Police is just Greater London alone...

It's been said for long enough that the police as an organisation here in the UK constantly covers for and protects it's officers, but on sexual and domestic violence???

Unreal.

This is a combination of a cultural acceptance of misogyny (and racism) and a 'don't grass' code of conduct. A lot of the lower level things (that lead to higher level things) are seen as just banter and jokes. Like locking new female recruits in the boot of patrol cars for hours on end. Just a bit of fun, no harm done.

 

[nhbbear]

This is just getting ridiculous now.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21062047/met-police-officer-dead-child-abuse-images-charge/

A SENIOR cop has been found dead at his home after failing to attend a police station to be charged over possessing child abuse images, The Sun can reveal.

The body of Met Police chief inspector Richard Watkinson, 49, was discovered by colleagues concerned about his welfare.

Police said his death was "unexplained" though not suspicious and sources said it is suspected Watkinson killed himself while under "huge mental strain" over the case.

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One source told The Sun that Watkinson was due to report back on bail last Thursday morning to be charged over an alleged network of online paedophiles.

He is said to have feared he was about to be publicly named in connection with the alleged conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children.

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He was a popular and high profile officer often wheeled out by the Met to give public statements following high-profile stings and police operations.

But colleagues were "shocked" by Watkinson’s arrest on 9 July 2021.

Watkinson was originally held over allegations of misconduct in public office, sending obscene messages, corrupt exercise of police powers and data protection breaches.

It followed a joint probe by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and the Met’s professional standards unit.

During a search of the cop’s home, investigators are said to have found a secret trap-door which led to an area where computer equipment allegedly containing the [up to thousands of] child abuse images was found.

The material is said to have been Category A and B – the two most serious bands - which feature children being sexually abused.

Following the alleged discovery of the illegal material, Chief Insp Watkinson was further arrested 11 days later on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism and misconduct in public office.

Did the decent thing but would have been better if he exposed others before offing himself. Bet he was on epsteins client list

 

[650lb Sumo]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...p-paedophile-ring-inquiry-faces-investigation

Steve Rodhouse is understood to have denied any wrongdoing to IOPC investigators.

One of Britain’s most senior police officers should face a gross misconduct charge over his role in Operation Midland, the disastrous investigation into claims of a VIP paedophile ring, the police watchdog has concluded.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct had previously cleared Steve Rodhouse of wrongdoing for overseeing the Metropolitan police’s operation, which saw the force raid homes of high-profile figures having fallen for the lies of the fantasist Carl Beech.

Rodhouse, formerly a deputy assistant commissioner in the Met, is now the National Crime Agency’s director general for operations. The NCA said he would not be suspended.

The IOPC reopened its investigation after complaints that the Met had failed to investigate two individuals who allegedly made false allegations to detectives. Rodhouse is understood to have denied any wrongdoing to IOPC investigators. If found guilty of gross misconduct he could be sacked and barred from ever working in policing again.

 

[KnightTemplar]

It's not really a massive deal as police used to be brawlers. It was common for your local criminal to have an honest fist fight with an officer and remain civil afterwards.

Whilst guns are still pretty rare these days, a lot of foreign criminals use knives, razor blades and dirty syringes to threaten officers. Tazer is now common place.

View media item 35514
This is still one of my favourite pictures. A Glasgow detective smacking the shit out of a young bawbag with his bare hands who tried to attack him with a straight razor

Strathclyde polis used to be infamous for having some of the biggest, hardest coppers in the entire UK. This was by design: when Sir Percy Sillitoe became Chief Constable, he launched a recruitment drive focussed on the rural areas, such as the Highlands. Most of the new recruits had grown up doing heavy manual labour, such as farmers, blacksmiths etc.

Strathclyde's unofficial motto was, "It's gang warfare - and we're the biggest gang". They gathered intelligence on the razor gangs, and stationed coppers in unmarked vans near where the gangs were likely to meet for a prearranged fight. As soon as the gangs started fighting each other, the coppers would steam out of the vans and beat anyone not wearing a uniform into a living death.

A combination of this and a judicary who took a very dim view of violent criminals broke the razor gangs. So called, "hard men" knew that if caught in the act, they would get beaten to a pulp, then dragged in front of judge who would sentence them to 10 years in Barlinnie. And in those days, if you were sentenced to 10 years then, with good behaviour you might get released in...10 years

 

[KnightTemplar]

I'm a little shocked that not all officers are armed, or have a firearm in their vehicle, or an armed partner.

Pretty wild imo.

British police are almost unique in that regard. The only other European force I know that isn't armed is the Republic of Ireland's Garda. Norway is something of a grey area; their police don't carry weapons on their person, but they are kept in police car's lockboxes. The use of the weapons must be authorised by a senior officer.

The official reason for British police not being armed is that it's simply not necessary, given that the UK does not have a gun culture, and firearms are very difficult to obtain legally. This ignores the fact that criminals are perfectly willing to break firearms legislation, since they are intending to commit much more serious crimes once they get their hands on the weapon.

There have been several instances where police being unarmed has led to their deaths or the deaths of civilians. For example, in 2010 Derrick Bird killed 12 people and injured 11 others during a shooting spree in rural Cumbria. The only coppers in the area were unarmed. All they could do was follow Bird as he shot at people and report back where he was. And at one point they had to stop doing that, because Bird pointed his rifle at them, forcing them to withdraw.

The upside of this is that the AFO's - authorised firearms officers - are well trained volunteers. The basic AFO course takes eight weeks, and demands high standards. These officers will go on to crew Armed Response vehicles, or serve with specialist units such as Protection Command, which provides armed bodyguards to VIP's. At the highest level, the Counter Terrorist Specialised Firearms Officers are the British police equivalent of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. They regularly cross-train with the SAS.

The downside is that less than 5% of British officers carry firearms, which means the ones that do are spread very thinly. Especially outside the larger cities. As coppers themselves sarcastically point out,

"When every second counts, Armed Response is only minutes away".

 

[The Big Yin]

Strathclyde polis used to be infamous for having some of the biggest, hardest coppers in the entire UK. This was by design: when Sir Percy Sillitoe became Chief Constable, he launched a recruitment drive focussed on the rural areas, such as the Highlands. Most of the new recruits had grown up doing heavy manual labour, such as farmers, blacksmiths etc.

Strathclyde's unofficial motto was, "It's gang warfare - and we're the biggest gang". They gathered intelligence on the razor gangs, and stationed coppers in unmarked vans near where the gangs were likely to meet for a prearranged fight. As soon as the gangs started fighting each other, the coppers would steam out of the vans and beat anyone not wearing a uniform into a living death.

A combination of this and a judicary who took a very dim view of violent criminals broke the razor gangs. So called, "hard men" knew that if caught in the act, they would get beaten to a pulp, then dragged in front of judge who would sentence them to 10 years in Barlinnie. And in those days, if you were sentenced to 10 years then, with good behaviour you might get released in...10 years

When I joined in 2001 I went to see the Inspector for my unit for his welcome chat. He was about to retire and had a face that needed regular panel beating. His speech to me was -

"Listen new boy, we claim 2 hours overtime every shift, no questions asked. If you don't like it then fuck off. If you ever run away from a fight, leave your colleagues in the shit or cower in front of a scrote, I'll slap you myself. Were down the pub tonight, the first 2 rounds are on you. Mines a tea, white no sugar"

 

[KnightTemplar]

When I joined in 2001 I went to see the Inspector for my unit for his welcome chat. He was about to retire and had a face that needed regular panel beating. His speech to me was -

"Listen new boy, we claim 2 hours overtime every shift, no questions asked. If you don't like it then fuck off. If you ever run away from a fight, leave your colleagues in the shit or cower in front of a scrote, I'll slap you myself. Were down the pub tonight, the first 2 rounds are on you. Mines a tea, white no sugar"

Was his name Gene Hunt by any chance?

 

[The Big Yin]

Was his name Gene Hunt by any chance?

Gene Hunt was tame compared to some of the old sweats I worked with

 

[650lb Sumo]

British police are almost unique in that regard. The only other European force I know that isn't armed is the Republic of Ireland's Garda. Norway is something of a grey area; their police don't carry weapons on their person, but they are kept in police car's lockboxes. The use of the weapons must be authorised by a senior officer.

Note that not all the countries with unarmed police are coloured in on the map. Here is the list:

Bhutan, Botswana, Cook Islands, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland, Kiribati, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norway, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, South Korea, the United Kingdom (except for Northern Ireland), the U.S. Virgin Islands and Vanuatu.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

huh? i wonder why their sexual assault arrest rate is so low

 

[650lb Sumo]

https://news.sky.com/story/ex-polic...g-girl-under-16-and-indecent-assault-12903509

Michael Lockwood, the former director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has been charged with nine sexual offences allegedly committed during the 1980s, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

He faces six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against the girl, the CPS added.

The 64-year-old stepped down from his role at the IOPC in December after it emerged he was the subject of a police probe into a historical allegation.

Lockwood was the first director general appointed to lead the IOPC when it replaced the Independent Police Complaints Commission in 2018.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between October 1985 and March 1986.

Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Special Crime Division at the CPS, said: "After carefully considering all of the evidence provided to us by Humberside Police, we have authorised charges against Michael Lockwood, 64, for nine offences under the Sexual Offences Act 1956.

Rosemary Ainslie

"Mr Lockwood has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against a girl under the age of 16, alleged to have been committed during the 1980s."

He is due to appear before magistrates in Hull on 28 June.

 

[650lb Sumo]

Former Met Policeman convicted of 8 counts of rape committed while he was in the police

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/met-police-officer-who-raped-30276124

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl at a second trial and a further six sex attacks on a colleague.

Adam Provan, 44, of Newmarket, Suffolk, was convicted by a jury of the six counts of rape of a fellow police officer between 2003 and 2005, and two counts of rape of a teenage girl whom he met on a blind date after lying about his age in 2010.

All the offences were committed while he was a serving officer in the Met's East Area Command Unit.

Detective Sergeant Victoria James said: "These are truly dreadful offences. Provan abused his position to win the trust of both these women. I hardly need to say Provan's behaviour fell grossly short of what we expect from our police officers.

Provan will be sentenced on the 21st of August.


Met Police Sergeant on trial for rape committed on his stag do

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/met-police-sergeant-goes-trial-30267138

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has gone on trial accused of raping a stranger on Brighton beach while he was on his own stag do.

Sergeant Laurence Knight was off-duty at his stag party on July 17 last year when he allegedly carried out the attack after his group were entertained by strippers at their AirBnb in the Sussex resort.