By now, both the police and public may have grown accustomed to excoriating reports into the Met’s performance, culture and standards of behaviour. Yet the force’s failings still possess the power to shock.
Following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer — as well as other deeply disturbing incidents — Baroness Casey carried out an independent review which laid bare a series of failings and painted a picture of the country’s largest force as institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
