Rooting out sexual predators from the ranks of the Metropolitan Police — trying to prevent another David Carrick or Wayne Couzens — is an essential task. To that end, Scotland Yard is deploying covert officers into “toxic” police stations and specialist units, and launching a UK-first plan to re-vet staff.
This is imperative because Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard, and Carrick, a serial rapist, continued to work in the same elite Met armed unit despite previous sexual complaints. Indeed, we now know that multiple opportunities were missed to dismiss Couzens and Carrick. Only today, it has emerged that a Pc sacked for punching a woman in the face had a history of improper use of force but kept his role.
