Susanna Reid has spoken out about the shocking messages from Met police officers which were sent in secret social media groups.
On Tuesday it was reported that police officers had exchanged highly offensive racist, sexist and homophobic messages with claims that it was "banter" becoming a cover for bullying and harassment.
Details of messages from WhatsApp groups and a Facebook chat group referring to rape including "I would happily rape you" and "if I was single I would happily chloroform you" were detailed in a shocking report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct into now-disbanded Metropolitan Police teams.
"There's going to be a challenge to confidence in police officers if people know that this is the sort of language that is used behind the scenes," Susanna, 51, commented.
"Absolutely shocking. The Metropolitan Police have said in a statement they are deeply sorry to everyone they have failed with their appalling conduct, adding that since 2017 they have taken a series of measures to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour.
"I'm sure there's many, many more people in the Metropolitan Police who are equally shocked and appalled. That needs to change," Susanna added as her co-host Adil Ray agreed with her.
Susanna and Adil invited IOPC Director Sal Naseem onto the show along with Refuge CEO Ruth Davison to discuss the messages.
"We made a conscious decision in our report to actually show the public, and serving officers, what this banter - as you described it - and what the culture actually looks like," Mr Naseem explained.
"And it's pretty sickening when you see what these exchanges look like. Now, in our report we've quite rightly said that this isn't just a few bad apples. What we're actually challenging is, is the barrels that these apples come from," he added.
Ms Davison then said: "This report is horrific, the very fact that the IOPC felt they had to draw out those quotes and publish them so we understand as the public why such radical action is needed is damning in itself.
"There has been report after report about this and we've written it off as one bad apple, but Sal has said it himself, this is a institutional culture of misogony and hatred within the police force."
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