David Carrick: More shocking cases may follow, Braverman warns

More shocking cases involving constabulary officers whitethorn emerge, the location caput warns aft Met serviceman David Carrick admitted helium was a serial rapist.

Suella Braverman urged constabulary forces to "double down" connected their efforts to basal retired corrupt officers and betterment constabulary vetting processes.

But Labour said ministers had failed to heed repeated calls for reform.

Carrick was sacked from the force aft admitting to dozens of rape and intersexual offences against 12 women implicit decades.

The 48-year-old, who was an equipped serviceman successful the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, utilized his relation to instil fearfulness successful his victims.

Carrick had already pleaded blameworthy to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, successful December.

Ms Braverman told MPs that Monday was a "dark day" for British policing and the Metropolitan Police.

"It is intolerable for them [the victims] to person suffered arsenic they have," she said, successful a connection to the House of Commons aft his ceremonial dismissal.

"They were manipulated and isolated and subjected to horrific abuse.

"For anyone to person gone done specified torment is harrowing, but for it to person happened astatine the hands of idiosyncratic they entrusted to support radical harmless is astir beyond comprehension," she added.

She said she had been "encouraged" by the enactment Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley had already undertaken to "root retired officers not acceptable to deterioration the badge" earlier informing much cases could soon emerge.

"It is captious that the Metropolitan Police and different forces treble down connected their efforts to basal retired corrupt officers. This whitethorn mean much shocking cases travel to airy successful the short-term," she said.

The location caput announced an interior reappraisal into constabulary dismissals to marque definite the strategy was just and effectual astatine removing officers not acceptable to serve.

"Bureaucracy and process look to person prevailed implicit morals and communal sense," she said.

She added that the lawsuit would present besides beryllium considered successful the Angiolini Inquiry, which was acceptable up to look into the abduction, rape and execution of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens.

But Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper accused the authorities of failing to code "appalling failures successful the constabulary vetting and misconduct processes".

"Her connection is precise anemic and it shows a superior deficiency of enactment connected thing that is truthful sedate and affects assurance successful policing arsenic good arsenic superior crimes," she added.

Earlier, Sir Mark Rowley apologised for the failings of the Met Police and said opportunities to region Carrick from policing were missed.

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

In an interview with Good Morning Britain, helium admitted helium could not committedness women that Met Police officers to whom they study crimes were not themselves a enactment offender.

He said astir of his officers were "fantastic" but warned determination were immoderate who should not beryllium successful the Met helium had to "identify and get escaped of".