For the past 12 months, the Metropolitan Police has been in the organisational equivalent of a body scanner. Every vital organ of this 194-year-old beast has been examined in detail by Baroness Louise Casey and her review team enabling them to understand the Met in a way that no one has done before. The results, from top to toe, are alarming – and demand emergency surgery.
Scotland Yard commissioned the report after one its officers, Wayne Couzens, was jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021. The backdrop also includes a string of other shocking scandals that has contributed to plunging levels of public confidence: in five years the proportion of people who believe the force does a good job locally has fallen from 70 to 45 per cent.
If the Metropolitan Police was a business, it would be bust by now
The underlying reasons for the Met’s malaise, Casey found, are mainly self-inflicted.
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