Women’s safety campaigners demanded the immediate suspension of suspect police officers as a damning report warned of widespread misogyny and criminality in the Met and other forces.
The report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services said that officers with convictions for offences including robbery, indecent exposure and theft, and others with links to organised crime, had been allowed to join and transfer between forces because of vetting failures.
