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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Police reviewing how it treats indecent exposure after Wayne Couzens scandal

Police on the beat
The review comes as confidence in policing among women has fallen after Sarah Everard’s murder by Wayne Couzens and a series of other scandals. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Police are to formally review whether they should take indecent exposure more seriously amid emerging evidence that people who commit such crimes can escalate their offending, the Guardian has learned.

It comes after it was revealed Wayne Couzens, the then-Metropolitan police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, had committed a series of offences where he had exposed himself before the murder.

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