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The Standard View: Sir Mark Rowley must drive the bigots out of the Metropolitan Police

It has been another tough day for the Met. An immigration official, a former Metropolitan Police officer, has been suspended by the Home Office following an investigation into allegations of racist posts in a WhatsApp group.

The group is understood to include other former Met officers, and the BBC reports that serving officers remained members of it until after the murder of Sarah Everard by PC Wayne Couzens last year.

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