Met Police: Women and children failed by 'boys' club', review finds.

Women and children person been failed by the Metropolitan Police, with racism, misogyny, and homophobia astatine the bosom of the force, a blistering reappraisal says.

Baroness Casey says a "boys' club" civilization is rife and the unit could beryllium dismantled if it does not improve.

Her year-long reappraisal condemns systemic failures, coating a representation of a unit wherever rape cases were dropped due to the fact that freezers containing cardinal grounds broke.

The Met's Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologised to Londoners.

He said: "It is ghastly. You beryllium down and work that study and it generates a full bid of emotions. It generates anger, frustration, embarrassment."

The study begins with a tribute to Sarah Everard's parent and a punctuation from her unfortunate interaction statement, fixed successful court. It says "those crimes and those betrayals of trust" led to this review.

The 363-page study condemns the unit arsenic institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic. Staff routinely acquisition sexism, it adds. There are racist officers and staff, and a "deep-seated homophobia" successful the organisation.

In London, Baroness Casey says policing by consent - the thought mean radical spot the constabulary to enactment honourably and beryllium held accountable - is broken.

The study says enactment teams astatine the apical of the Met person been successful denial for decades, and determination has been a systemic nonaccomplishment to basal retired discriminatory and bullying behaviour.The force, it says, has failed to support the nationalist from officers who maltreatment women.

Asked if determination could beryllium much officers similar Couzens and Carrick inactive wrong the force, Baroness Casey said: "I cannot sufficiently guarantee you that that is not the case."

Black officers are 81% much apt to beryllium successful the misconduct strategy than achromatic colleagues, the study adds.

"Attempts to amended diverseness successful the Met are not succeeding," Baroness Casey says successful the report. "The Met's effect to favoritism is wholly unsatisfactory.

"Deep successful its civilization it is uncomfortable talking astir racism, misogyny, homophobia and different forms of discrimination."

Baroness Casey says she accepted the Met had been "disfigured" by what she described arsenic a decennary of austerity and backing cuts.

Pressure connected the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), connected courts and an expanding London colonisation are besides citied arsenic "significant challenges" for the Met.

But she says she felt not capable had changed since the 1999 Macpherson report, published aft the execution of achromatic teen Stephen Lawrence, which labelled the Met "institutionally racist".

"That's not connected Cressida Dick," Baroness Casey told reporters - acknowledging Sir Mark's predecessor arsenic the force's commissioner, who resigned past year.

"That's connected each commissioner and a batch of politicians. It is rot erstwhile you dainty Londoners successful a racist fashion, that goes implicit a agelong play of time," she wrote.

In total, the reappraisal made 16 recommendations and said changes were needed to "create a radically improved caller London Metropolitan Police Service".

Baroness Casey said the standard of required reforms were connected a par with the translation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, into the PSNI, successful 2001.

She said the specializer Parliamentary Protection Diplomatic Command section - the squad Couzens had been a subordinate of - should beryllium disbanded successful its existent forms, and firearms officers re-vetted.

The study said a dedicated women's extortion work needed to beryllium acceptable up, and that determination should beryllium a cardinal reset of halt and hunt successful London.

Baroness Casey concluded: "If capable advancement is not being made astatine the points of further review, much extremist structural options - specified arsenic dividing up the Met into national, specializer and London responsibilities - should beryllium considered."

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said it was "clear that determination person been superior failures of civilization and enactment successful the Metropolitan Police". She says Sir Mark Rowley had been moving "to reconstruct assurance successful policing successful London".

Sir Mark said helium felt a level of pridefulness that his officers spoke out: "It is our men and women, who attraction astir policing successful London, who person fixed astir of the grounds of that study to Baroness Casey, which is testament to their commitment."

He added: "To beryllium portion of an organisation that has fto individuals down truthful severely is profoundly upsetting. And that's wherever portion of my ain information comes from.

"Because we person to constitute this wrong. We person to woody with these taste problems. And the immense bulk of my colleagues are up for this."