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Britain’s largest police force is ‘institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic,’ report finds
Baroness Louise Casey says London’s Metropolitan Police has failed to protect the public from officers like killer Wayne Couzens and serial rapist David Carrick
New police recruits during a passing-out parade at Hendon Police Academy, London

BRITAIN’S largest police force is “institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic,” a damning review finds today.

London’s Metropolitan Police has failed to protect the public from officers like killer Wayne Couzens and serial rapist David Carrick, and the force may have more officers like them, it warned.

Baroness Louise Casey’s report said that organisational changes at the Met have put women and children at greater risk and female officers and staff routinely experience sexism.

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