Metropolitan Police

Sexual offences and predatory conduct

• Volunteer officer raped multiple children.
• Officer charged with multiple sexual offences.
• Officer knew rape victim was young.
• Should never have employed Wayne Couzens.
• Detective inspector drugged his wife so men at swinging parties could rape her.
• Former Met officer charged with child sex offences.
• Suspended officer pleads guilty to stalking.
• A former Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with 15 counts of sexual assault and two counts of raping a vulnerable woman he met while on duty.
• PC charged with rape and voyeurism offences.
• Porn addicted officer who uploaded child abuse videos of girls as young as eight from a police station avoids prison.
• Former officer convicted of 10 counts of rape, including three of raping a child under the age of 13.
• Former officer, charged with 13 counts of rape, tied up one of his alleged victims, and threatened to stab her and slit her throat, a jury has been told.

Other crime, corruption and misconduct

• Officer found guilty of assault.
• Officer stole £115 money from a dead man.
• Former officer stole money from man who had collapsed.
• Former police constable used the bank details of deceased people to purchase electronics worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
• Three officers found guilty of gross misconduct for accessing files relating to the case of Sarah Everard with no proper policing purpose.
• Detective Constable Zainab Hussain who took relative off domestic abuse suspects list is given written warning.

Israel–Palestine, antisemitism and proscribed organisations

• Waving an Israeli flag could be a "breach of the peace".
• Confronting Palestine Action supporters, a proscribed terrorist organisation, is akin to "damn stupid" football fans.
• Jewish protester charged with "racial harassment" over anti-Hezbollah sign.
• Officers unaware that Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation.
• A Met Police adviser led the "from the river to the sea" chant at a pro-Palestine rally.
• Swastikas displayed at a pro-Palestinian march; Met Police accused of antisemitism.
• Officer threatened to arrest a Jewish man at a pro-Palestine march; the force apologises and faces fresh victim-blaming claims.
• Protestor holding "Hamas are Terrorists" sign arrested by police.
• Jews require segregated transport services to maintain safety.
• Indicates that simply being a Jew is provocative.
• Scraps ties with head of Muslim advisory group, Attiq Malik, who chanted "from the river to the sea".
• Arrested someone for saying Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, was a proscribed terrorist organisation.
• Chanting and projecting "from the river to the sea" on Big Ben is not a crime.
• A team of more than 20 officers is now dedicated to investigating potential war crimes, including allegations relating to Israel-Gaza.
• Failed to turn up after 10 emergency calls where three people were attacked in Leicester Square for being Jewish.

Islamism and extremism

• Banned a protest in Tower Hamlets due to concerns of violence by a large Muslim population.
• Muslim police officer faces sack over alleged links to female jihadist.
• Shakeel Begg, an imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre, lectured children and worked with Metropolitan Police despite being ruled "extremist" by a high court judge.
• Metropolitan Police determined a mass stabbing event in which a murderer shouted "allu akbar" between 6 murders occurred due to his "mental health".
• Not all calls for Jihad are violent.

Race, diversity and identity politics

• "All lives matter" is an example of racism.
• Hired a convicted multiple sexual offender because of a drive to improve diversity.
• Report by Shereen Daniels says "Stop and Search operates as routine surveillance of black life" and attacks "whiteness".
• Coaches ethnic minority staff on how to secure promotions.
• Pulled police away from Downing Street during Black Lives Matter riots leading to more injured officers.
• A former chief described a firearms officer kicking a violent man in the head as racist.
• Assistant commissioner, Louisa Rolfe, states the greatest strength of London is its diversity, just days after members of parliament were coerced by violent threats by radical Islamists, and weeks after a member of parliament resigned after receiving death threats from radical Islamists.
• Two Metropolitan Police officers who allegedly bundled a black schoolboy to the ground before handcuffing him were motivated by race.
• Black Police Association chair facing sack over racist WhatsApp messages.
• Fired and then reinstated two officers who they wrongly believed were racially profiling people.
• Gave police the green light to take a knee during Black Lives Matter protest.
• Scraps gang database because it unfairly discriminated against black people who were disproportionately represented on it.

Free expression, protest and surveillance

• Comedians making benign online Tweets may risk inciting violence in the real World.
• Arrested Graham Linehan for some tweets and banned him from using online social media platforms.
• Will not prosecute Kneecap after suggesting that people should kill their MP.
• Arrested a football supporter for calling his sporting rivals "rent boys".
• Mark Rowley threatens to extradite foreigners for their posts online.
• Metropolitan Police, Sussex Police and Essex Police were all involved in investigating a Tweet by Allison Pearson, a journalist for The Telegraph.
• Officer threatens to arrest a Christian preacher due to allegations of a hate crime.
• Officer tells Christian singer on Oxford Street that she is not allowed to perform church songs outside of church grounds before walking off and sticking her tongue out to the camera.
• The Special Demonstration Squad, a Metropolitan Police undercover unit, spied on political and activist groups for decades.
• Man is fined £90 for covering face in front of facial recognition cameras.
• Pre-emptively arrest 10 Youth Demand activists ahead of King's speech.

Service failures, safeguarding and policing priorities

• Blocked efforts to safeguard children who were being sexually exploited by gangs while staying in care homes.
• Recommends reporting your children to Prevent if they are viewing misogynist videos online.
• Woman is assaulted at Nandos and officers in the restaurant are notified immediately and they did nothing.
• Failed to retrieve the CCTV footage of a man having his watch stolen.
• Investigated a homophobic attack by a black man which they didn't believe was a hate crime.
• Investigating vandalism to pride flags as hate crimes.
• Man flies to UK without ticket or passport arriving at Heathrow Airport and is allowed to walk free out of the airport to then fail to turn up to a court summons several weeks later.

Leadership, culture and workforce

• Survey of London officers reveals scale of those wanting to quit or leave under Mark Rowley.
• Employees vote to strike over right to work from home.
• Mark Rowley, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, believes because he is correctly applying the law when he is being accused of being both woke and fascist.
• Hundreds of armed officers have deserted the firearms unit in the past six months after a colleague was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.
• More than 1,000 Metropolitan officers are currently suspended or on restricted duties as it tries to root out rogue officers.

Inspectorate (HMICFRS) report findings

• Is failing in almost all its areas of work, the police inspectorate has said.
• Is "inconsistent" in managing sex offenders.
• Has not met its goal of reducing the number of outstanding suspects.
• There were significant issues in the standards of investigation, victim care and investigation management in the Metropolitan Police's victim service.
• Has more work to do to make sure it consistently assesses the level of risk for all 999 and 101 calls when considering a response.
• Issues arising due to a lack of training for investigating officers including in managing sex offence suspects and offenders.
• Inexperienced officers trying to manage large workloads beyond their training and knowledge.
• Culture makes some officers and staff reluctant to speak out about poor behaviour.

Crime trends and statistics

• One rape reported every hour all hours of the day in 2023.
• The number of 10 to 19 year olds charged with rape in London has more than doubled in two years from 2021 to 2023.

Miscellaneous

• Objected to the construction of a new jazz bar because criminals might target customers.
• In a case where £3billion in Bitcoin was seized, half of the proceeds will be given to the Home Office and the other half to the Metropolitan Police.

People

• Louisa Rolfe
• Mark Rowley

Twitter

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