Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said the Met police faces a “long road to recovery” following the publication of a damning report that found the force is institutionally sexist, racist and homophobic
Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, Ms Braverman said Baroness Louise Casey’s report makes for “very concerning reading”.
“It’s clear that there have been serious failures of culture, leadership, and standards within the Metropolitan Police,” she said.
Baroness Casey’s report, released on Tuesday, denounced a catalogue of failings at Scotland Yard infecting every level of the force.
The landmark report was commissioned in the wake of the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the Met must “seize the opportunity to fundamentally change its culture” and called for reform to policing “as a whole”.
Interim director Tom Whiting said: “We will work with police and others to identify how the system can be reformed and what needs to be done to make it happen.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the report was “one of the darkest days” in the history of the almost 200-year-old Met Police service.
Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the force still had “toxic individuals” but he vowed they were being “rooted out” of the organisation.
“We have racists, misogynists and homophobes in the organisation. We have systemic failings, management failings and cultural failings,” he said, while adding that he was “embarrassed” by the report.
