London police officer admits to dozens of offenses against women, including 24 cases of rape - CNN

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A serving serviceman successful London’s Metropolitan Police has admitted to 49 offenses, including 24 counts of rape implicit an 18-year period, reigniting calls for urgent betterment successful the United Kingdom’s largest constabulary force.

David Carrick appeared astatine Southwark Crown Court successful the British superior Monday to plead blameworthy to 4 counts of rape, mendacious imprisonment and indecent battle relating to a 40-year-old pistillate successful 2003, the UK’s PA Media quality bureau reported.

At the Old Bailey transgression tribunal successful London past month, Carrick admitted to 43 charges against 11 different women, including 20 counts of rape, betwixt March 2004 and September 2020, according to PA.

A series of caller scandals has shed airy connected what the UK constabulary watchdog called a civilization of misogyny and racism successful London’s constabulary service.

In September 2021, Metropolitan Police serviceman Wayne Couzens was sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole for the abduction, rape and execution of Sarah Everard, a lawsuit that horrified the federation and sparked statement astir unit against women.

The Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Cressida Dick resigned from her post successful 2022, aft a damning reappraisal by the Independent Office for Police Conduct issued 15 recommendations “to alteration policing practice” successful the country.

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Carrick’s lawsuit is 1 of the “most shocking” it has ever seen.

“The standard of the degradation Carrick subjected his victims to is dissimilar thing I person encountered successful my 34 years with the Crown Prosecution Service,” CPS Chief Crown Jaswant Narwal said.

“I commend each azygous pistillate who courageously shared their traumatic acquisition and enabled america to bring this lawsuit to tribunal and spot justness served,” Narwal continued portion speaking extracurricular Southwark Crown Court Monday.

The elder investigating serviceman successful the case, Detective Chief Inspector Iain Moor, called Carrick’s crimes “truly shocking.”

“The constabulary work is committed to tackling unit against women and girls successful each its forms,” Moor said. “I anticipation the victims and the nationalist much wide are reassured that nary 1 is supra the instrumentality and the constabulary work volition relentlessly prosecute those offenders who people women successful this way.”

Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Barbara Gray besides apologized connected behalf of the constabulary unit to each the victims.

Speaking to a newsman connected Monday, Gray said that Carrick “should person been dismissed from the constabulary work a agelong clip ago.”

In a abstracted connection connected Monday, she said: “We should person spotted his signifier of abusive behaviour and due to the fact that we didn’t, we missed opportunities to region him from the organization. We are genuinely atrocious that Carrick was capable to proceed to usage his relation arsenic a constabulary serviceman to prolong the suffering of his victims.”

“The duration and quality of Carrick’s offending is unprecedented successful policing. But regrettably helium is not the lone Met serviceman to person been charged with superior intersexual offences successful the caller past,” she added.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said helium is “absolutely sickened by the genuinely abhorrent offences” that Carrick committed.

“Londoners volition beryllium rightly shocked that this antheral was capable to enactment for the Met for truthful agelong and superior questions indispensable beryllium answered astir however helium was capable to maltreatment his presumption arsenic an serviceman successful this horrendous manner,” Khan tweeted Monday.

Khan commented that enactment to betterment the civilization and standards of the Met has already started pursuing an interim reappraisal and that a new, anonymous constabulary complaints hotline and anti-corruption squad has precocious been established by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley.

“But much tin and indispensable beryllium done,” added Khan. “I volition proceed to clasp the Met to relationship arsenic they enactment to instrumentality the reforms needed.

“It’s captious that each victims of transgression person assurance successful our police, and we simply indispensable bash much to rise standards and empower constabulary leaders to escaped the Met and each different constabulary services of those officers who are intelligibly unfit to serve,” the politician continued.