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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Woodcock

London’s police guilty of ‘systemic’ sexism, racism and homophobia, says mayor

BBC

The Metropolitan Police is facing “real problems” of systemic sexism, racism and homophobia within the service, London mayor Sadiq Khan has said.

Mr Khan said that the force’s new commissioner must have a plan to address these challenges in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, the botched investigation of Stephen Port’s killing of gay men and misogynistic behaviour at Charing Cross police station and elsewhere.

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