A damning review into the Met Police revealed a female officer was "forcibly undressed" by a male cop in a patrol car, and forced to sit on his lap.
The horrific details emerged in the Baroness Casey Review which found "fundamental problems" with how the Metropolitan Police is run.
The bombshell report, commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard, found the Met Police was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic, and said if it didn’t change it should be abolished in the next five years.
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It said the force had a "we know best" attitude and often ignored or jumped to defend officers’ behaviour.
The Mirror reports that among the countless details to be released in the review was one case study centred around a female officer, who - like many others - was subjected to sickening treatment at the hands of her male colleagues.
She was sexually assaulted by a more senior male colleague on a number of occasions, the report states.
This included masturbating in front of her in a communal changing room and forcibly undressing her in a patrol car, only stopping when a member of the public drove by.
The female officer, referred to in the report as L, said the male officer would "frequently touch her inappropriately; forcing her to sit on his lap, touching her on intimate parts of her body while she was getting changed."
He would also deliberately bruise her arms, claiming to be demonstrating "officer safety moves."
This would not just happen while out on patrol but also while on Met Police premises.
Alongside the horrific treatment of L, the male officer also reportedly bullied and verbally abused another female officer.
When L built up the courage to report the male officer to her sergeant, after months of abuse in the workplace, "nothing was done, and the sexual assaults continued", the damning report claimed.
The female officer reported him a second time but was asked if she wanted to "go down the misconduct route" or pursue a criminal case.
She was warned that if she did the latter, it would mean everyone would know what happened to her, and she felt like she was persuaded to "keep it in house."
She told the Baroness Casey Review: "[Superior] was making it seem like my husband’s going to know, everyone’s going to know, so I decided on the misconduct route."
Despite her undertaking a video interview, and having a witness provide a full written account, she would only find out by chance months later that the case had been dismissed.
She was made aware of this when she bumped into an officer in the corridor who said "sorry about how it [the case] went, but that’s how it goes."
L spoke to the Directorate of Professional Standards to challenge the decision but was told: "it’s your word against his" and that her abuser had a "long, unblemished career in the Met."
No further action was taken against her abuser who got off free, and retired from the force.
Following the case, the female officer was branded a liar and a troublemaker, and was also ostracised by her colleagues.
She told the review it made the workplace feel like a "boys’ club".
Her mental health was severely affected and she claims the Met offered her no specialist support.
After she was off work long-term due to sickness, she said the Met was currently trying to dismiss her.
During the dismissal process, she said she was sent documentation by the Met which falsely claimed that the misconduct case was not pursued because she had not wanted to proceed with the investigation.
"It would have probably been better to suffer in silence, but I couldn’t do that. He got away with everything, I was made to look like the liar," she said.
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