David Carrick: Met investigating 800 officers over abuse claims - BBC

The Met Police is investigating 1,000 intersexual and home maltreatment claims involving astir 800 of its officers, the commissioner has said.

Sir Mark Rowley announced each 45,000 Met officers and unit would beryllium rechecked for antecedently missed offending.

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

"We person failed. And I'm sorry. He should not person been a constabulary officer," helium said.

Sir Mark said: "This antheral abused women successful the astir disgusting manner. It is sickening. We've fto women and girls down, and so we've fto Londoners down. The women who suffered and survived this unit person been unimaginably brave and courageous successful coming forward.

"I bash recognize besides that this volition pb to immoderate women crossed London questioning whether they tin spot the Met to support them safe.

"We haven't applied the aforesaid consciousness of ruthlessness to guarding our ain integrity that we routinely use to confronting criminals."

Carrick, who worked for the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, committed the offences against 12 women crossed 2 decades.

The Met apologised aft it emerged Carrick was brought to the attraction of constabulary implicit 9 incidents including allegations of rape, home unit and harassment betwixt 2000 and 2021.

A spokesperson for the premier curate said high-profile cases specified arsenic Carrick's had "shattered" the public's spot successful policing.

Rishi Sunak retains religion successful the Met and its main Sir Mark Rowley, the spokesperson said, adding: "The commissioner has acknowledged the important enactment required by the force."

Baroness Casey, who is conducting a reappraisal of the force's standards and interior culture, called connected the location caput for a afloat enquiry into Carrick's case.

"We beryllium it to each of his victims that this enactment takes place," she said.

She added the scope of Lady Elish Angiolini's existent non-statutory enquiry into the abduction, rape and execution of Sarah Everard should beryllium extended to see the actions of Carrick.

Any enquiry into Carrick should "include the behaviour of David Carrick and the imaginable opportunities the Met, different constabulary forces and organisations whitethorn person had to place his signifier of behaviour anterior to October 2021, to halt him being a constabulary serviceman and, ultimately, halt him offending," she said.

The contented was "so serious", she said, that if extending the existent enquiry was not imaginable she would unpaid to behaviour a abstracted inquiry.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said it was a "sobering day" for the Met and "the full policing household passim the country".

"This appalling incidental represents a breach of trust, it volition impact people's assurance successful constabulary and it's wide that standards and civilization request to alteration successful policing.

She said main constables needed to travel caller guidance by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary connected prioritising vetting and recruiting processes.

"I expect each main constable to instrumentality connected committee those recommendations and instrumentality them urgently," she said.

Find BBC News: East of England connected Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you person a communicative proposition email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk