Rights groups call for statutory inquiry into misogyny in the Met

Reclaim These Streets said the actions of the officers who strip-searched Konstancja Duff ‘means this cannot be written off as yet another bad apple’. Photograph: John Robertson/The Guardian

Women’s rights groups have called for a statutory inquiry into misogyny in the Metropolitan police after derogatory comments by officers about an academic while she was strip-searched showed how “deeply embedded” sexism is in the force.

In CCTV footage published by the Guardian, police officers made disparaging remarks about Konstancja Duff while she was strip-searched at Stoke Newington police station.