Met use counter-terrorism tactics to catch men attacking women

Police tactics utilized against terrorists are being utilized to drawback the 100 worst predators targeting women successful London.

The Met said a strategy assessing 35,000 offenders reported each twelvemonth for crimes against females was being used.

It follows a bid of scandals and a reappraisal that recovered the unit was racist, misogynist and homophobic.

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said: "It's taking the organised transgression oregon coercion attack to antheral predatory violence."

"If we spell aft them proactively, physique a lawsuit against them, get them disconnected the streets, that protects women and children successful London, truthful that's an indicator of thing much innovative, much front-footed, and however we betterment however we constabulary London", Sir Mark added.

The Cambridge Crime Harm Index (CCHI) is the archetypal strategy that measures the seriousness of transgression harm to victims, and not conscionable the fig of officially recorded crimes.

It gathers information connected tens of thousands of men precocious convicted of home assault, rape, enactment offences, stalking, and harassment to fertile the 100 who airs the highest hazard to the public.

Baroness Casey was appointed to review the force's civilization and standards aft the abduction, rape and execution of Sarah Everard by serving constabulary serviceman Wayne Couzens, successful 2021.

During the people of her review, different Met officer, David Carrick, was convicted of a bid of rapes, intersexual offences and torture of women.

Plans to overhaul the force, a £366 cardinal two-year strategy dubbed A New Met for London, are being launched with visits to each borough successful the English capital.

Bosses accidental determination volition beryllium an accrued accent connected neighbourhood policing successful a bid to rebuild nationalist trust.

Some 240 officers retired of the Met's full workforce of astir 34,000 volition beryllium moved from cardinal to section teams.

There are besides plans to enlistee 500 much assemblage enactment officers (PCSOs) and an other 565 radical to enactment with teams investigating home abuse, intersexual offences and kid intersexual maltreatment and exploitation.

Each borough volition person astatine slightest 1 beforehand antagonistic unfastened 24 hours a time nether the proposals.

During austerity from 2010 onwards, section borough teams were chopped truthful that betwixt 2 and 4 boroughs were covered by 1 basal bid unit.

Sir Mark, who antecedently said determination were hundreds of officers successful the Met who should person been kicked disconnected the force, said bosses are "sacking and suspending much officers than ever before".

He added: "I've got a number of my radical I request to benignant out, and we're doing that arsenic rapidly and arsenic rapidly arsenic we tin do."

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: "Londoners volition rightly justice this program connected actions not words, and I volition beryllium unflinching successful holding the Met and the Commissioner to relationship and supporting him to deliver."

London's Victims' Commissioner Claire Waxman OBE said: "A New Met for London intelligibly sets retired however the Met plans to crook astir the unit and present for Londoners, but determination is nary clip to lose, arsenic they request to rapidly and efficaciously amended their enactment to the thousands of victims they interact with connected a regular basis."

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