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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Carrick conviction shows Met police’s ‘deeply rotten misogynistic culture’

Harriet Wistrich
Harriet Wistrich of the Centre for Women's Justice said it was ‘truly shocking’ David Carrick was not suspended after a report of rape by a woman in July 2021. Photograph: James Manning/PA

The scores of offences committed by the Metropolitan police firearms officer David Carrick expose “a deeply rotten misogynistic culture” within Britain’s largest police force, a leading campaigner has said.

The Metropolitan police were the focus of outrage, disbelief and sadness after the revelations that one of their armed officers who guarded parliament was a serial sex attacker.

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