Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley cried after reading landmark report which revealed cops were breaking the law
MET Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said he cried after reading a landmark report which revealed cops were breaking the law and keeping their jobs.
Sir Mark admitted he “shed a tear” after seeing advanced drafts and when talking to officers.
It comes after the boss of the London force, who took over last month, admitted hundreds of its cops should be “thrown out” for criminal and disgraceful behaviour.
The damning report published yesterday by Baroness Casey of Blackstock found the Met’s misconduct procedures to be racist and sexist.
Asked by LBC radio’s Nick Ferrari yesterday why his officers are “getting away with this”, Sir Mark said: “It’s horrific, isn’t it, Nick, and sort of reading some of the stories and talking to some officers, it’s hard for it not to bring a tear to your eye, what they’ve encountered and what’s been badly dealt with.”
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He added that Dame Louise Casey has “done a fantastic job of really getting under our skin” and had found “we’ve been too weak, too forgiving of standards that should be, in any sensible organisation, say that’s a red card”.
Asked if he’d got emotional over the findings, he added: “The combination over the last few weeks of seeing advanced drafts of the report and talking to officers in the organisation, I have shed a tear.”
Baroness Casey was asked to investigate the Met’s culture and standards by former commissioner Dame Cressida Dick after Sarah Everard’s murder by gun cop Wayne Couzens.
It found repeat misconduct offenders keeping their jobs, with only 13 out of 1,809 officers and staff with more than one case against them since 2013 being sacked.
